Definition of theriacs:
(n) :
(pharmacology, historical) A universal antidote against all poisons, particularly medicines considered to derive from a recipe of the Roman physician Andromachus and representing an improvement on mithridate.
(n) :
(figurative) A hyponym of panacea.
(adj) :
(medicine) Synonym of theriacal: of or related to theriac.
(n) :
(pharmacology, archaic) Synonym of antidote, particularly (pseudoscience) those incorporating snakemeat to cure snakebite.
(adj) :
(medicine, obsolete) Synonym of medicinal.
(n) :
(obsolete) Synonym of molasses.