 elixir vitae: Encyclopedia - ElixirElixir originally comes from exir (اکسیر) in Persian. Exir first entered to Arabic as alexir (الاکسیر) and then transformed to Elixir in English.
Elixir has several meanings:
In alchemy, an elixir was a substance believed to be able to change base metals into gold. Other properties were also attributed to such elixirs, such as increasing human longevity. The Philosopher's stone and the elixir vitae overlap in some traditions.
Elixir vitae (elixir of life) was given to a ...
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