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Mitigating; assuaging or soothing pain; as, paregoric elixir.

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  1. a. Mitigating; assuaging or soothing pain; as, paregoric elixir.
  2. n. A medicine that mitigates pain; an anodyne; specifically, camphorated tincture of opium; -- called also paregoric elexir.
  3. n. medicine used to treat diarrhea
  4. Mitigating; assuaging or soothing pain; as, paregoric elixir. A medicine that mitigates pain; an anodyne; specifically, camphorated tincture of opium; -- called also paregoric elexir.
  5. Mitigating; assuaging or soothing pain; as, paregoric elixir.
  6. n. medicine used to treat diarrhea