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antipestilential

antipestilential adjective: preventing or acting as a remedy against bubonic plague or other infectious diseases.

Adjective

antipestilential (comparative more antipestilential, superlative most antipestilential)

  1. Preventing or acting as a remedy against bubonic plague or other infectious diseases.
    • […] 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,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...
    • Antipestilential Pills.1722, Daniel Defoe, “A Journal of the Plague Year”, in et al., London: E. Nutt, page 36

Noun

antipestilential (plural antipestilentials)

  1. A preventative or remedy against bubonic plague or other infectious diseases.
    • 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.1665, Gideon Harvey, A Discourse of the Plague, London: Nath. Brooke, Distinction 12, p. 15
    • The electuary, which was formerly in high repute as an antipestilential, has been replaced, in English pharmacy, by the Electuarium catechu.1848, Theophilus Redwood, Gray’s Supplement to the Pharmacopœa, 2nd edition, London: Longman, et al, page 665

Forms of antipestilential

Adjective
comparativemore antipestilential
superlativemost antipestilential
Noun
pluralantipestilentials

Origin of antipestilential

From anti- + pestilential.

Questions about antipestilential

What does antipestilential mean?
Antipestilential means preventing or acting as a remedy against bubonic plague or other infectious diseases.
What part of speech is antipestilential?
Antipestilential can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near antipestilential in the dictionary

  1. antiperthitic
  2. antipertussive
  3. antipertussives
  4. antipest
  5. antipesticide
  6. antipestilential
  7. antipestilentials
  8. antipet
  9. antipetalous
  10. antipetroleum
  11. antiphage

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