Thesaurus results for CATHOLICON

catholicon

noun

kə-ˈthä-lə-ˌkän

Definition of catholicon

as in remedy

something that cures all ills or problems he seems to prescribe fluids and rest as a catholicon for everything

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Noun

The remedy requires Google to let developers freely tell users, inside their apps, that cheaper offers exist elsewhere.

— Gabriel Alin Zainescu, Forbes.com, 23 July 2026
The likelier path is tummy time absorbed into a broader postural routine rather than sold as a standalone remedy.

— Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 23 July 2026

Definition of remedy

Noun

Anderson found the origins of present fads in the fervent nostrums of the past.

— David Denby, New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2026
Because of the false but persistent and powerfully seductive nostrum that reducing the value of a country’s currency will stimulate its economy by making its exports cheaper and its imports more expensive.

— Steve Forbes, Forbes.com, 29 Jan. 2026

Definition of nostrum

Noun

However, Justice Gray’s majority opinion was nothing close to a panacea for American Sinophobia.

— Claire Ke, Encyclopedia Britannica, 22 July 2026
Manfred has framed the cap as a panacea for less competitive franchises and an antidote for the hegemony of the back-to-back champion Dodgers.

— Andy McCullough, New York Times, 15 July 2026

Definition of panacea

Noun

Health influencers and online clinics have been touting its benefits well beyond what current evidence suggests, promoting it as a miracle substance akin to an elixir of well-being.

— Annalisa Merelli, STAT, 16 July 2026
The notion of testosterone as an all-purpose elixir for strength and vitality is not supported by the science.

— Matthew Perrone, Fortune, 16 July 2026

Definition of elixir

Noun

With no cure, Inaba manages her symptoms and now champions awareness through the Sjöut campaign with Novartis, empowering others to be heard and enabling her to resume her career.

— Bruce Y. Lee, Forbes.com, 21 July 2026
There's no cure for the species of Ebola circulating, and some locals have attacked health workers, suspicious of their motives.

— Brittney Melton, NPR, 21 July 2026

Definition of cure

Noun

L’Orvietan and its imitators had their roots in a more antique antidote called theriac.

— Elizabeth Heath, Discover Magazine, 15 Feb. 2023
Zinc lozenges suddenly became the theriac to cure all ills; masks and hand-sanitizer, the ambergris and zedoary to ward off infection.

— Spencer Strub, The New York Review of Books, 25 Mar. 2020

Definition of theriac

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