Dictionary:
e·lix·ir (ĭ-lĭk'sər) ![]() |
- A sweetened aromatic solution of alcohol and water, serving as a vehicle for medicine.
- See philosophers' stone.
- A substance believed to maintain life indefinitely. Also called elixir of life.
- A substance or medicine believed to have the power to cure all ills.
- An underlying principle.
[Middle English, a substance of transmutative properties, from Old French elissir, from Medieval Latin elixir, from Arabic al-’iksīr : al, the + ’iksīr, elixir (probably from Greek xērion, desiccative powder, from xēros, dry).]




