Definition of Catholicon. Meaning of Catholicon. Synonyms of Catholicon

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Definition of Catholicon

Catholicon
Catholicon Ca*thol"i*con, n. [Gr. ?, neut. ?, universal. See Catholic.] (Med.) A remedy for all diseases; a panacea.

Meaning of Catholicon from wikipedia

- Look up Catholicon or catholicon in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Catholicon may refer to: Catholicon, the conventual church at the centre of an abbey...
- The Catholicon Angli**** is an English-to-Latin bilingual dictionary compiled in the late 15th century. The Catholicon Angli**** was written in 1483. Its...
- The Summa grammaticalis quae vocatur Catholicon, or Catholicon (from the Gr**** Καθολικόν, universal), is a 13th-century Latin dictionary which found wide...
- In pre-modern medicine, catholicon was a soft electuary, so called as being supposedly universal in its curative and prophylactic abilities (see panacea);...
- misstatement, however.) The Christ Pantocrator mosaic inside the catholicon dome Cross over the catholicon South of the Aedicule is the "Place of the Three Marys"...
- Catholicon (from Gr**** Καθολικόν 'universal') is a 15th-century dictionary written in Breton, French, and Latin. It is the first Breton dictionary and...
- Christ Pantocrator in the dome of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre's catholicon. Church domes are a common site of Pantocrator images....
- its complete form in his hugely po****r 1286 Latin dictionary known as Catholicon (in 1460, it became one of the first books to be printed using Gutenberg's...
- papabile is at least as old as the 15th century, since it is found in the Catholicon Angli****. In Italian, the word papabile is also used in non-Church contexts...
- courtyard lies the catholicon surrounded by the wings that house the monks' cells, the guesthouse and the refectory. The catholicon, which is dedicated...