A medieval chemical philosophy having as its asserted aims the transmutation of base metals into gold, the discovery of the panacea, and the preparation of the elixir of longevity. 炼金术,炼丹术中世纪的一种化学哲学。其声称的目标是将一些基本金属转变为金子,发现万灵药及制备长生不老药
Americans call that" the macrobiotic elixir of life". 褪黑素(号脑白金)制并影响其它不同激素的分泌,从而间接控制人体生理的各种机能。
Elixir of Camouflage: Imbiber cannot be tracked for1 hour. 难道是强效的隐形药水.....1小时的!
elixir
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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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hypothetical substance that the alchemists believed to be capable of changing base metals into gold
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a substance believed to cure all ills
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Elixir \E*lix"ir\, n. [F. ['e]lixir, Sp. elixir, Ar. eliks[=i]r the philosopher's stone, prob. from Gr. ? dry, (hence probably) a dry powder; cf. Skr. ksh[=a] to burn.] 1. (Med.) A tincture with more than one base; a compound tincture or medicine, composed of various substances, held in solution by alcohol in some form.
2. (Alchemy) An imaginary liquor capable of transmuting metals into gold; also, one for producing life indefinitely; as, elixir vit[ae], or the elixir of life.
3. The refined spirit; the quintessence.
The . . . elixir of worldly delights. --South.
4. Any cordial or substance which invigorates.
The grand elixir, to support the spirits of human nature. --Addison.
Thirty years later, in 1764, the monks produced the milder green liqueur based on the elixir, and this is their main product today. The elixir itself is still available.
Thirty years later, in 1764, the monks produced the milder green liqueur based on the elixir, and this is their main product today. The elixir itself is still available.
What was needed was not an elixir of love but one of youth.
The "elixir of sulfanilamide" scandal that resulted in 107 deaths, mostly children, spurred tougher drug laws in 1938.
"Very simply, gold is the elixir of life for South Africa," says a top official of one of the country's biggest mining houses.
Although Donizetti's quack doctor sells what he claims is a mystical elixir, it is in fact nothing but a bottle of Bordeaux.
"Stocks are really getting a dose of takeover elixir here," said Eugene E. Peroni Jr., director of technical research at Janney Montgomery Scott, in Philadelphia.
Led by Japan a group of dynamic East Asian economies appears to have flouted the rules of market economics yet achieved unparalleled economic success. If these countries have found a new elixir of growth, the rest of the world needs the formula.
He came across the recipe for a monastic elixir apparently invented by a Venetian monk at Fecamp Abbey in the early 16th century.
The Federal Reserve has been administering its all-purpose elixir, lower Fed funds rates, to combat the crunch.