What does the word elixir mean?
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An elixir is a medicine composed of various substances held in solution in alcohol. The name has been used, however, for preparations which contain no spirit of wine.
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[ Latin] A composite tincture or spirit; particularly, one containing only a small amount of active ingredients and made palatable by the addition of sugar and aromatics. Acid e. of Haller( E. acidum Halleri, E. vitriol), mixture sulfurica acida( see Sulphuric acid). Aromatic e. ( E. aromaticum), see Aromatic. Bitter e. ( E. amarum), see Bitter. E. adlongam vitam( E. sacrum), tincture aloes composita. E. balsamicum Hoffmanni, e. aurantiorum compositum( see Orange). E. paregoricum, camphorated tincture of opium. E. roborans Whittii, compound tincture of cinchona. E. salutis, wine of rhubarb.
Usage examples for elixir
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He was looking for a new kind of mineral water that he was going to call the Elixir of Life. – Shorty McCabe by Sewell Ford
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It was a new, sweet, strange, elixir of life. – Daisy in the Field by Elizabeth Wetherell
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As a matter of fact, I was twenty- nine years of age when, in South America, while exploring the ruins of the most ancient civilization of the world- of the world, ladies and gentlemen- I made my wonderful discovery, the Elixir of Youth! – Tales of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett
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