Antipestilential
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adjective
Quick meaning: Antipestilential is an adjective meaning Preventing or acting as a remedy against bubonic plague or other infectious diseases.
Meaning
Preventing or acting as a remedy against bubonic plague or other infectious diseases.
More Meanings
- A preventative or remedy against bubonic plague or other infectious diseases.
Example Sentences
Antipestilential Pills.
The electuary, which was formerly in high repute as an antipestilential, has been replaced, in English pharmacy, by the Electuarium catechu.
1665, Gideon Harvey, A Discourse of the Plague, London: Nath. Brooke, Distinction 12, p. 15, Neither, as we may universally observe, is the Plague more shie in attaquing those that are armed with the said Antipestilentials, than others that slight all Preservatives.
1685, Robert Boyle, An Essay of the Great Effects of Even Languid and Unheeded Motion, London: Richard Davis, “An Experimental Discourse of some Unheeded Causes of the Insalubrity and Salubrity of the Air,” Proposition 3, p. 65, […] during this time [when the Nile is overflowing] the Air is so antipestilential, that not only the Plague does not make a new Eruption; but is either wonderfully check’d or quite suppress’d in those houses that it has already invaded,
Word Forms
- antipestilentials
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include antibubonic, antipest, antiinfection, antiplague, antiloimic, antiseptic.
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