Panacea vs Medicament - What's the difference?
panacea | medicament |
A remedy believed to cure all disease and prolong life that was originally sought by alchemists; a cure-all.
Something that will solve all problems.
(obsolete) A particular plant believed to provide a cure-all.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.v:
As a proper noun panacea
is (greek god) the goddess/personification of healing, remedies, cures and panaceas (medicines, salves, ointments and other curatives) she is a daughter of asclepius and epione.As a noun medicament is
a medicine, medication or drug.panacea
English
Noun
- A monorail will be a panacea for our traffic woes.
- There, whether it diuine Tobacco'' were, / Or ''Panachæa'' , or ''Polygony , / She found, and brought it to her patient deare [...].