mithridatet (mithridat)

[Also me thrid ate, and improp. mithradite; I feel me ill; give me some mithridate ; Some mithridate and oil, good sister, fetch me. B. Jonson, Every Man in his Humour, iv. 6. Wine, an it be thy will! strong lusty wine! Well, fools may talk of mithridate , cordials, and elixirs; But from my youth this was my only physic. Fletcher ( and another ), Sea Voyage, v. 2. This is a course that will. alter slander into piety, that the viper's flesh may become mithradite . Jer. Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), I. 753. Mithridate mustard, a kind of penny-cre . See pep perwort . Mithridatic (mith-ri-dat'ik), a . [=F. mithrida tique Pg. mithridatico , Mithridatic us , pertaining to Mithridates, Mithridates , Mithridates: see mithridate .] 1. Of or pertaining to Mithridates, specifically to Mithridates VI. of Pontus (died about 63 в. C.): as, the Mithri datic wars. Also Mithradatic .-2t. [l. c.] Pertaining to or of the nature of mithridate.