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万灵药,灵丹妙药;万能灵药;
万灵药:可治百病的灵药,万应药
Middle English, from Medieval Latin, from Greek katholikon, neuter of katholikos
The first known use of catholicon was in the 15th century
catholiconnoun
something that is a cure-all or panacea
1 The Professor then entreated M. T. Pate to imbibe from the bottle containing his catholicon.
2 Indeed I doubt whether I have ever felt the catholicon—the pervading virtue of his book—quite so strongly as I have in the days preceding that on which I write these words.
3 Unfortunately, I have no catholicon for every industrial ill—but the political drug-stores are full of 'em.
4 In the centre of this court stands the catholicon or conventual church, a square building with an apse of the cruciform domical Byzantine type, approached by a domed narthex.
5 he seems to prescribe fluids and rest as a catholicon for everything