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Tolerance to a poison acquired by taking gradually increased doses of it.

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Usage examples (4)
  • The old notion as to "mithridatism" was that an animal or a man would have to be separately prepared and
  • This is the case of (relative) immunization or, as it is sometimes called, of mithridatism.
  • One of my personal favorites in this category is mithridatism
  • The question of whether proper names of people and places have a rightful place in a dictionary is probably an obsolete one: their presence was formerly justified on the...
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