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mithridate

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mith·ri·date  (mthr-dt)
n.
An antidote against poison, especially a confection formerly held to be an antidote to all poisons.

[Medieval Latin mithridtum, alteration of Late Latin mithridtum, from Latin, neuter of Mithridtus, of Mithridates, from Greek mithridteios, after Mithridates VI, who is said to have acquired tolerance for poison.]


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He has but one fault, he is somewhat wilful; but really, on referring for the moment to what he said, do you truly believe that Mithridates used these precautions, and that these precautions were efficacious?
Sometimes more than one of these causes will excite men to enter into conspiracies, as contempt and desire of gain; as in the instance of Mithridates against Ariobarzanes.
Their national pride held him up as the Mithridates of the Republic.
 
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