Definitions for elixir

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elixir e·lix·ir

Spelling: [ih-lik-ser]

IPA: /ɪˈlɪk sər/

Elixir is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 45 anagrams from letters in elixir (eiilrx).

Definitions for elixir

noun

1. Pharmacology. a sweetened, aromatic solution of alcohol and water containing, or used as a vehicle for, medicinal substances.
2. Also called elixir of life. an alchemic preparation formerly believed to be capable of prolonging life.
3. an alchemic preparation formerly believed to be capable of transmuting base metals into gold.
4. the quintessence or absolute embodiment of anything.
5. a panacea; cure-all; sovereign remedy.

Origin of elixir

1350-1400; Middle English Medieval Latin Arabic al iksīr alchemical preparation Late Greek xḗrion drying powder (for wounds), equivalent to Greek xēr(ós) dry + -ion, neuter of -ios adj. suffi

Examples for elixir

Saved my life by shooting a dog with a bottle of Daffy's elixir!'

My dear mother packed a bottle of Daffy's elixir in the barrel of my pistol.'

And the rising star still standing just might be in the best position to offer some elixir to our deeply ailing political system.

He grinds the grains of maturity or the herbs that make the elixir of life.

And have you the elixir vita which generally accompanies it?

Football “is what Plato calls a pharmakon, a poison and an elixir,” he writes.

But denying the regime air supremacy is not the elixir the rebels make it out to be.

She had discovered an elixir which should renew her life to larger ends.

"He poured out everything Gregory gave him after that, the vegetable juices, every elixir," Harold says.

Perry is a pop general, perched atop a candy rainbow, bathing her army of fans in an elixir of empowerment.