Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for A-LEX-I-PHARM'AC
A-LEX-I-PHARM'ACA-LEX-I-TER'IC, or A-LEX-I-TE'RI-AL
A-LEX-I-PHARM'AC, n.
A medicine that is intended to obviate the effects of poison; an antidote to poison or infection. By the Greeks, the word was used for an amulet. – Quincy. Encyc.
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