Elixir: Definition and part of speech

Elixir

  1. n. Any cordial or substance which invigorates.
  2. n. A tincture with more than one base; a compound tincture or medicine, composed of various substances, held in solution by alcohol in some form.
  3. n. An imaginary liquor capable of transmuting metals into gold; also, one for producing life indefinitely; as, elixir vitae, or the elixir of life.
  4. n. The refined spirit; the quintessence.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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