Elixir
noun
A magical or medicinal potion.
She sipped the mysterious elixir that was said to grant eternal youth.
Often appears as...
- magic elixir
- medicinal elixir
noun
A sweet flavored liquid (often containing alcohol) used in compounding medicines to disguise their taste.
The pharmacist mixed a strawberry flavored elixir to make the medicine more palatable for children.
Often appears as...
- elixir of life
- cough elixir
noun
A particular type of liquor.
The bartender mixed an exotic elixir with hints of cinnamon, cardamom, and anise.
Often appears as...
- cocktail elixir
- herbal elixir
Usage tips
Colloquial
noun
A magical or medicinal potion.
She sipped the mysterious elixir that was said to grant eternal youth.
Often appears as...
- magic elixir
- medicinal elixir
noun
A sweet flavored liquid (often containing alcohol) used in compounding medicines to disguise their taste.
The pharmacist mixed a strawberry flavored elixir to make the medicine more palatable for children.
Often appears as...
- elixir of life
- cough elixir
noun
A particular type of liquor.
The bartender mixed an exotic elixir with hints of cinnamon, cardamom, and anise.
Often appears as...
- cocktail elixir
- herbal elixir
Usage tips
Colloquial
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Mythical Connotations
Elixir often implies a mystical quality, especially in fantasy or fiction.
The ancient tome mentioned an elixir that could turn lead into gold.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Real
In modern times, 'elixir' may be used jokingly to refer to something not truly magical.
This coffee is my morning elixir; it wakes me right up!
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphorical Use
People use 'elixir' metaphorically to describe a solution to a problem.
Laughter is an elixir that can often relieve stress.
Pro Tip 1/3Mythical Connotations
Elixir often implies a mystical quality, especially in fantasy or fiction.
The ancient tome mentioned an elixir that could turn lead into gold.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Real
In modern times, 'elixir' may be used jokingly to refer to something not truly magical.
This coffee is my morning elixir; it wakes me right up!
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphorical Use
People use 'elixir' metaphorically to describe a solution to a problem.
Laughter is an elixir that can often relieve stress.
Pro Tip 1/3Mythical Connotations
Elixir often implies a mystical quality, especially in fantasy or fiction.
The ancient tome mentioned an elixir that could turn lead into gold.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Real
In modern times, 'elixir' may be used jokingly to refer to something not truly magical.
This coffee is my morning elixir; it wakes me right up!
Pro Tip 3/3Metaphorical Use
People use 'elixir' metaphorically to describe a solution to a problem.
Laughter is an elixir that can often relieve stress.
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The 4 stories we tell...
and the dream of doing that in this body in this world forever is the first and simplest kind of immortality story, and it might at first sound implausible, but actually, almost every culture in human history has had some myth or legend of an elixir of life or a fountain of youth
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The incredible history...
to securing his historical legacy because he was obsessed with his mortality. He spent his last years desperately employing alchemists and deploying expeditions in search of elixirs of life that would help him achieve immortality. And as early as the first year of his reign,
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What baby boomers can...
The modern elder is as much an intern as they are a mentor, because they realize, in a world that is changing so quickly, their beginners' mind and their catalytic curiosity is a life-affirming elixir, not just for themselves but for everyone around them.
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The life cycle of a cup...
but it needs more help for the final stretch. Each coffee company has a head buyer who carefully selects beans from all over the world. Logistics teams manage bean delivery routes, and brave baristas across the city serve this caffeinated elixir
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Humble plants that hide...
Now, us human beings, we're always on the lookout for the elixir of youth. We don't want to get old, and rightly so. Why should we, especially if you can afford it? And this gives you an indication of what the plant looks like before.
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World's Deadliest...
it's no bigger than a cigarette lighter but it possesses a potent elixir and when it lives near people it often takes shelter where they do in countries like India scorpion stings are a serious public health issue particularly among
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World's Deadliest...
it's no bigger than a cigarette lighter but it possesses a potent elixir and when it lives near people it often takes shelter where they do in countries like India scorpion stings are a serious public health issue particularly among
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Sleep is your superpower...
to a full night of sleep, and without embarrassment or that unfortunate stigma of laziness. And in doing so, we can be reunited with the most powerful elixir of life, the Swiss Army knife of health, as it were.
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What's Driving Tigers...
luxury good among China's growing elite selling for up to hundreds of dollars a bottle the product is made by steeping a tiger's bones in rice wine some believed drinking the resulting elixir will cause
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Larry Brilliant: TED...
who, having climbed the highest mountain, tasted the elixir of the success of eradicating a disease, wanted to do it again. And over the last 27 years, Seva's programs in 15 countries
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The 4 stories we tell...
and the dream of doing that in this body in this world forever is the first and simplest kind of immortality story, and it might at first sound implausible, but actually, almost every culture in human history has had some myth or legend of an elixir of life or a fountain of youth
Video examples
The incredible history...
to securing his historical legacy because he was obsessed with his mortality. He spent his last years desperately employing alchemists and deploying expeditions in search of elixirs of life that would help him achieve immortality. And as early as the first year of his reign,
Video examples
What baby boomers can...
The modern elder is as much an intern as they are a mentor, because they realize, in a world that is changing so quickly, their beginners' mind and their catalytic curiosity is a life-affirming elixir, not just for themselves but for everyone around them.
Video examples
The life cycle of a cup...
but it needs more help for the final stretch. Each coffee company has a head buyer who carefully selects beans from all over the world. Logistics teams manage bean delivery routes, and brave baristas across the city serve this caffeinated elixir
Video examples
Humble plants that hide...
Now, us human beings, we're always on the lookout for the elixir of youth. We don't want to get old, and rightly so. Why should we, especially if you can afford it? And this gives you an indication of what the plant looks like before.
Video examples
World's Deadliest...
it's no bigger than a cigarette lighter but it possesses a potent elixir and when it lives near people it often takes shelter where they do in countries like India scorpion stings are a serious public health issue particularly among
Video examples
World's Deadliest...
it's no bigger than a cigarette lighter but it possesses a potent elixir and when it lives near people it often takes shelter where they do in countries like India scorpion stings are a serious public health issue particularly among
Video examples
Sleep is your superpower...
to a full night of sleep, and without embarrassment or that unfortunate stigma of laziness. And in doing so, we can be reunited with the most powerful elixir of life, the Swiss Army knife of health, as it were.
Video examples
What's Driving Tigers...
luxury good among China's growing elite selling for up to hundreds of dollars a bottle the product is made by steeping a tiger's bones in rice wine some believed drinking the resulting elixir will cause
Video examples
Larry Brilliant: TED...
who, having climbed the highest mountain, tasted the elixir of the success of eradicating a disease, wanted to do it again. And over the last 27 years, Seva's programs in 15 countries
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Jeff Buckley
American Musician
I became a human jukebox, learning all these songs I'd always known, discovering the basics of what I do. The cathartic part was in the essential act of singing. When is it that the voice becomes an elixir? It's during flirting, courtship, sex. Music's all that.
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Elaine Sciolino
American Writer
The Italian Renaissance extends beyond food, of course. Just about every major Italian furniture designer now has a shop in Paris, and Le Bon Marche recently opened an outlet for Santa Maria Novella perfumes, elixirs and soaps from Florence on its ground floor.
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Sukarno
Indonesian Statesman
To intoxicate the masses until they were heady with the wine of inspiration was all I lived for. To me, this was elixir... I wax lyrical. I literally am overcome, and this is transmitted to my listeners.
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Isabella Bird
English Explorer
To a person sitting quietly at home, Rocky Mountain traveling, like Rocky Mountain scenery, must seem very monotonous; but not so to me, to whom the pure, dry mountain air is the elixir of life.
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James Turrell
American Artist
I feel that I want to use light as this wonderful and magic elixir that we drink as Vitamin D through the skin - and I mean, we are literally light-eaters - to then affect the way that we see.
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James Turrell
American Artist
This wonderful elixir of light is the thing that actually connects the immaterial with the material - that connects the cosmic to the plain everyday existence that we try to live in.
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Lawrence M. Krauss
American Physicist
As a physicist, I've always found cosmology to be a rational elixir; it distances me from ordinary concerns.
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Erma Bombeck
American Journalist
I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent.
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Ernest Renan
French Philosopher
I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.
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Katie Lee
American Chef
My number one elixir for anxiety? Comfort food.
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Jeff Buckley
American Musician
I became a human jukebox, learning all these songs I'd always known, discovering the basics of what I do. The cathartic part was in the essential act of singing. When is it that the voice becomes an elixir? It's during flirting, courtship, sex. Music's all that.
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Elaine Sciolino
American Writer
The Italian Renaissance extends beyond food, of course. Just about every major Italian furniture designer now has a shop in Paris, and Le Bon Marche recently opened an outlet for Santa Maria Novella perfumes, elixirs and soaps from Florence on its ground floor.
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Sukarno
Indonesian Statesman
To intoxicate the masses until they were heady with the wine of inspiration was all I lived for. To me, this was elixir... I wax lyrical. I literally am overcome, and this is transmitted to my listeners.
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Isabella Bird
English Explorer
To a person sitting quietly at home, Rocky Mountain traveling, like Rocky Mountain scenery, must seem very monotonous; but not so to me, to whom the pure, dry mountain air is the elixir of life.
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James Turrell
American Artist
I feel that I want to use light as this wonderful and magic elixir that we drink as Vitamin D through the skin - and I mean, we are literally light-eaters - to then affect the way that we see.
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James Turrell
American Artist
This wonderful elixir of light is the thing that actually connects the immaterial with the material - that connects the cosmic to the plain everyday existence that we try to live in.
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Lawrence M. Krauss
American Physicist
As a physicist, I've always found cosmology to be a rational elixir; it distances me from ordinary concerns.
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Erma Bombeck
American Journalist
I will buy any creme, cosmetic, or elixir from a woman with a European accent.
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Ernest Renan
French Philosopher
I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life.
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Katie Lee
American Chef
My number one elixir for anxiety? Comfort food.
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