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panacea | panacean |

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 an adjective panacean is

having the properties of a panacea.

panacea

English

Noun

  • 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.
    • A monorail will be a panacea for our traffic woes.
  • (obsolete) A particular plant believed to provide a cure-all.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.v:
    • There, whether it diuine Tobacco'' were, / Or ''Panachæa'' , or ''Polygony , / She found, and brought it to her patient deare [...].

    Synonyms

    * (remedy to cure all disease) catholicon, cure-all * (plant) allheal, woundwort

    See also

    * nostrum English words prefixed with pan- ----

    panacean

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Having the properties of a panacea.
    • Panacean dews. — Whitehead.
    (Webster 1913)