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antidote
(redirected from counterpoison)

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1) The term bezoar comes from the Arabic badzehr or from the Persian panzer, both meaning counterpoison and antidote.
30) Although, as in both Malingre's Moralite and Marguerite's Mallade, Christ here is glossed as "le souverain Medecin" (the sovereign doctor) who brings "l'antidote et contrepoison de sa parole" (the antidote and counterpoison of his word) to heal those contaminated by Catholic doctrine (195), such will not be the uplifting plot of the play.
 
 
 
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