Definition of "elixir" []

• A sweetened aromatic solution of alcohol and water, serving as a vehicle for medicine. (noun)
• See philosophers' stone. (noun)
• A substance believed to maintain life indefinitely. Also called elixir of life. (noun)
• A substance or medicine believed to have the power to cure all ills. (noun)
• An underlying principle. (noun)

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• "In the eternal quest for a fountain of youth, no elixir is beyond the realm of consideration."
• "Petrea, and some little also by her calling her elixir poison, threw upon her a look of great displeasure, and devoted herself to the weeping and bleeding Petrea."
• "The recent sessions with the "elixir" -a mixture of blood, ground pearl, mercury, sulfur, and several herbs Alinor couldn't identify-had generated vast amounts of psychic energy, powers which Al-Hazim could not see, and which Alinor had thought at first that he was probably not aware of."