theriac🔊

(pharmacology, historical) A universal antidote against all poisons, particularly medicines considered to derive from a recipe of the Roman physician Andromachus and representing an improvement on mithridate.

(figurative) A hyponym of panacea.

(pharmacology, archaic) Particularly (pseudoscience) those incorporating snakemeat to cure snakebite. +

(obsolete) Molasses.

(medicine) Of or related to theriac. +

(medicine, obsolete) Medicinal.