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Definitions

Verb

1. 1
   To make immune to a poison by administration of gradually increasing doses. US

   "Our constitutions adapt themselves to the slow poison of the world till we become mithridatized at last."

Example

More examples

"Our constitutions adapt themselves to the slow poison of the world till we become mithridatized at last."

Etymology

From Mithridates + -ize, in reference to Mithridates VI of Pontus.

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