Associations to the word «Catholicon»

Wiktionary

CATHOLICON, noun. (medicine) A supposed universal remedy.
CATHOLICON, proper noun. An early Latin dictionary, the Summa grammaticalis quae vocatur Catholicon

Dictionary definition

CATHOLICON, noun. Hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by the alchemists.

Wise words

Life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will. Virtue, good, evil are nothing but words, unless one takes them apart in order to build something with them; they do not win their true meaning until one knows how to apply them.
Paul Gauguin