MITHRIDATE


Meaning of MITHRIDATE in English

/mith"ri dayt'/ , n. Old Pharm.

a confection believed to contain an antidote to every poison.

[ 1520-30; earlier mithridatum mithridatium, n. use of neut. of Mithridatius, equiv. to Mithridat ( es ) MITHRIDATES VI (see MITHRIDATISM) + -ius -IOUS ]

Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary.      Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House .