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weapon-salve en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /ˈwɛpən salv/ (UK)

Meanings

  1. (historical) A type of ointment formerly applied to a weapon, believed to heal a wound caused by that weapon.
    • One of his great enthusiasms was for a "sympathetic" weapon salve, an idea originating in Paracelsus. 1936, Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London: Long, page 225:
    • The supreme example of a magical cure justified by the Neoplatonist belief in occult influences and sympathies was the weapon-salve, around which a fierce controversy raged in the 1630s. 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 184:
    • A century earlier Paracelsus had described the weapon-salve, which was prepared from a number of ingredients including the blood of the injured person. 2002, Allen G Debus, The Chemical Philosophy, page 246:

Forms

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weapon salve alternative lexicographic
weapon-salves Number=Plur lexicographic

Relateds

powder of sympathy · hoplochrism

Translations (2)

fr onguent armaire (A type of ointment formerly applied to a weapon in order to heal a wound caused by that weapon) · pl maść na broń (A type of ointment formerly applied to a weapon in order to heal a wound caused by that weapon)