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What does elixir mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word elixir? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. (alchemy) A liquid which converts lead to gold.
  2. (alchemy) A substance or liquid which is believed to cure all ills and give eternal life.
  3. (by extension) The alleged cure for all ailments; cure-all, panacea.
  4. (pharmacy) A sweet flavored liquid (usually containing a small amount of alcohol) used in compounding medicines to be taken by mouth in order to mask an unpleasant taste.
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I watched him this morning juicing a grapefruit, guava, blood orange, mango, plums, and grapes and pouring the elixir into a giant glass pitcher.
They find their laughter as sweet as nature's own elixir and their round, cherubic faces like heaping helpings of Olympian ambrosia.
In the second version, the poet is in a luxuriant garden, where he drinks an elixir which induces a vision.
There are moments when Caribbean winds, normally an elixir, get a bit out of hand.
I don't have time to make the detox elixir, so instead I take a good green powder with spirulina and wheat grass.
For more extensive oral ulceration, dexamethasone elixir, 0.5 mg per 5 ml, may be used as a rinse and expectorated.

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