Word of the Day, Sunday, March 30, 2014 panacea \ pan-uh-SEE-uh \ , noun; 1. a remedy for all disease or ills; cure-all. 2. an answer or solution for all problems or difficulties: His economic philosophy is a good one, but he tries to use it as a panacea. Quotes: But for the sake of this wonderful panacea —English humour— the English sacrifice so much. -- Wyndham Lewis, Tarr , 1918 Even so; some gloomy souls affirming that it is proving with that great invention as with brandy or eau-de-vie, which, upon its first discovery, was believed by the doctors to be, as its French name implies, a panacea —a notion which experience, it may be thought, has not fully verified. -- Herman Melville, The Confidence-Man: His Masquerade , 1857 Origin: Panacea derives from Greek panakeia , from panakes , all-healing, from pan- , all + akos , cure.
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