mithridatically

Adverb

1. In a mithridatic manner, gradually increasing doses of a poison or (figurative) other pernicious thing so as to build resistance or immunity.
   • We do not, for instance, treat diphtheria mithridatically, or according to the Jenner-Pasteur method. - 1906, “Professor von Behring's Treatment of Tuberculosis”, in The Medical Bulletin: A Monthly Journal of Medicine...
   • Moreover, his violence is not only a method of making art, but also a way of indicating the perverse self-destructiveness of art-making while warding it off through mithridatically indulging in it: as the previously...
   • There is much in traditional nudism to suggest that, so far from being erotically driven, it is actually puritanical in tendency, being an attempt, mithridatically as it were, to immunize oneself against (“irrational”)...