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

simple past tense and past participle of mithridatize

Third-person singular simple present indicative form of mithridatize

(US, rare) Synonym of mithridatism.

The practice of gradually ingesting successively greater amounts of a poison in order to build immunity.

(historical) Of or related to mithridates, universally curative against all poisons. / Of or related to mithridatism, the gradual acquisition of immunity to poison through repeated exposure.

(medicine, archaic) Synonym of antidote: a treatment which functions like a mithridate.

plural of mithridatic

present participle of mithridatize

In a mithridatic manner, gradually increasing doses of a poison or (figuratively) other pernicious thing so as to build resistance or immunity.