Usually means: Ancient antidote for poisons, venom.
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  1. theriac: Merriam-Webster
  2. theriac: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. theriac: Collins English Dictionary
  4. theriac: Wordnik
  5. theriac: Wiktionary
  6. theriac: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. Theriac, theriac: Dictionary.com
  8. Theriac: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Theriac: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Theriac: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. theriac: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. theriac: FreeDictionary.org
  13. theriac: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  14. theriac: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. theriac: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (theriac)

noun:  (pharmacology, historical) A universal antidote against all poisons, particularly medicines considered to derive from a recipe of the Roman physician Andromachus and representing an improvement on mithridate.
noun:  (figurative) A hyponym of panacea.
noun:  (pharmacology, archaic) Synonym of antidote, particularly (pseudoscience) those incorporating snakemeat to cure snakebite.
noun:  (obsolete) Synonym of molasses.
adjective:  (medicine) Synonym of theriacal: of or related to theriac.
adjective:  (medicine, obsolete) Synonym of medicinal.

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