elixir
IPA: ɪɫˈɪksɝ
noun
- (alchemy) A liquid which converts lead to gold.
- (alchemy) A substance or liquid which is believed to cure all ills and give eternal life.
- (by extension) The alleged cure for all ailments; cure-all, panacea.
- (pharmacy) A sweet flavored liquid (usually containing a small amount of alcohol) used in compounding medicines to be taken by mouth in order to mask an unpleasant taste.
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Examples of "elixir" in Sentences
- He uses small amounts of the elixir to heal people.
- However, Getafix has left the elixir near the Roman camp.
- He is thrown out, leaving the elixir at the Gandor hideout.
- At the end of the series, Blade gave Hannibal King the elixir.
- Although not proven, the blood is thought to be the elixir of life.
- They are successful and the demon gives them the immortality elixir.
- His bonehead assistant stole some of the Elixir and drank it as well.
- Elixir takes place by the co ordinated efforts of the students at IMS.
- In the cave, Lancelot finds Merlin delirious and administers an elixir.
- All wrong for the drink that writer E.B. White called the elixir of quietude.
- Devas and Asuras went on to churn the ocean to find Amruta the elixir of life.
- In the eternal quest for a fountain of youth, no elixir is beyond the realm of consideration.
- The main ingredient in the elixir is the Sangiovese grape, which is the soul of Chianti wine.
- The special ingredients of his elixir were a few crushed cherry and eucalyptus leaves that he scavenged from the trash behind the neighborhood apothecary's shop.
- 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.
- At the grill, Anna and Jeremy meet up as Damon spies on them, setting up another flashback of Pearl, Katherine, and Damon discussing the sheriff buying the vervain elixir.
- Like the elusive "elixir" - from the word al-iksir of the Arab alchemists - for changing base metal into gold, Muslim science altered medieval Christendom beyond recognition.
- 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.
- In case you're not in the know, "single barrel" means that unlike most whiskeys, which are blended and bottled from several different barrels in which the elixir has been aging, each bottle comes from one specially selected barrel that's determined by the distiller to be (barrel) head and shoulders above the rest of the batch.