CATHOLICON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does catholicon mean? 

• CATHOLICON (noun)
  The noun CATHOLICON has 1 sense:

1. hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by the alchemists

  Familiarity information: CATHOLICON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CATHOLICON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by the alchemists

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

catholicon; cure-all; nostrum; panacea

Hypernyms ("catholicon" is a kind of...):

curative; cure; remedy; therapeutic (a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "catholicon"):

elixir (a substance believed to cure all ills)