Meaning of elixir in English
(Definition of elixir from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of elixir
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The growth of scientific knowledge raises new visions of a modern elixir of life, and the culture of science may give them misplaced concreteness.
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Should we encourage unproven therapies as elixirs of hope?
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Here, alongside the elixir of ozone and holiday remembrances, there exists an enticing picture of crime-free boulevards and peer-group sociability.
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This was true in many cases, leading individual physicians to refuse to reveal the names of their patients to whom they had prescribed the elixir.
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Before the "elixir" was put on the market, it was tested by the firm for flavor but not for its effect on human life.
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Had the product been called a solution, rather than an elixir, no charge of violating the law could have been brought.
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The prescription and consumption of elixir sulfanilamide was probably dependent upon local referral networks and the idiosyncratic practices of individual physicians.
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They implicate magic, alchemy and various forms of nonscientific knowledge in the production of sources of eternal youth, and identify a public susceptibility to such elixirs.
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Or is doubt really faith's elixir?
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The rural measure in particular is one that we hope will help to characterize some of the information networks that may have influenced prescription and consumption of elixir sulfanilamide.
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With little fiscal coordination and no treasury, membership of the euro is by no means an elixir for good economic health.
Science is somehow to be the elixir of competitiveness.
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Do they not believe in the new elixir?
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There is a wondrous elixir called efficiency savings.
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And of course advertising is the elixir of life for the food sector in this overcrowded food market.
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elixer…
elixír…
eliksir, mirakelmedicin…
ramuan gaib, obat mujarab…
ยาอายุวัฒนะ…
thuốc tiên, thuật giả kim…
eliksir…
elixir…
ramuan ajaib…
das Elixier…
eliksir…
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