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tiriaca

  • noun [ masculine ]
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tiriaca, an; m.
A medicine, properly an antidote for poison, cf. tiriaca drenc wyð áttre,
    Wrt. Voc. i. 20, 20
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  • Tyriaca is gód drenc wiþ eallum innoðtýdernessum, and se man se ðe hine swá begǽþ swá hit hér on segþ, ðonne mæg hé him miclum gehelpan . . . Nime áne lylte snǽd ðæs tyriacan,

      Lchdm. ii. 288, 23-290, 3.
Etymology
[Low Latin tiriaca from Latin theriaca. In Mid. E. triacle=a sovereign remedy is common, see Skeat's note on Piers P. C. ii. 147.]
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v.  tyriaca.
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