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Catholicon

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Catholicon may refer to:

  • Catholicon, the conventual church at the centre of an abbey
  • Katholikon, the primary church in an Orthodox or Eastern Catholic monastery
  • Catholicon (1286), book written in 1286 by Johannes de Balbis of Genoa (Summa grammaticalis quae vocatur Catholicon)
  • Catholicon (trilingual dictionary), Breton–Latin–French dictionary written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc and printed in 1499
  • Catholicon (electuary), an alleged all-purpose cure (panacea) used in pre-modern medicine

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