Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for AN'TI-DOTE
AN'TI-DOTE, n. [Gr. αντιδοτος, of αντι, against, and διδωμι, to give; W. dodi, to give.]
- A medicine to counteract the effects of poison, or of any thing noxious taken into the stomach.
- Whatever tends to prevent mischievous effects, or to counteract the evil which something else might produce.
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