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English
Etymology
anti- + pestilential
Adjective
antipestilential (comparative more antipestilential, superlative most antipestilential)
- Preventing or acting as a remedy against bubonic plague or other infectious diseases.
- 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 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,
Noun
antipestilential (plural antipestilentials)
- A preventative or remedy against bubonic plague or other infectious diseases.
- 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.
1848, Theophilus Redwood, Gray’s Supplement to the Pharmacopœa, 2nd edition, London: Longman, et al, page 665:The electuary, which was formerly in high repute as an antipestilential, has been replaced, in English pharmacy, by the Electuarium catechu.
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