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One of my personal favorites in this category is mithridatism the gradual immunization of a person against a poison by administering it over a long period in small, but increasing dosages; it refers to Mithridates IV the Great of Pontus (? 133-65 BC), who, according to Justinian, foiled a conspiracy by just such a method before dispatching the conspirators one day at dinner by dosing the food with poison that had no effect on him.
The question of whether proper names of people and places have a rightful place in a dictionary is probably an obsolete one: their presence was formerly justified on the grounds that as “words” they are far more frequent than many of the “legitimate” words, like elytron, greave, or mithridatism . That might be justifiable if there were accurate frequency information available.