antipestilentialとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

antipestilential (comparative more antipestilential, superlative most antipestilential)

1. Preventing or acting as a remedy against bubonic plague or other infectious diseases.^[1]
   • 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,^[2]

     […] 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,

   • 1722, Daniel Defoe, A Journal of the Plague Year, London: E. Nutt et al., p. 36,^[3]

     Antipestilential Pills.

名詞

antipestilential (複数形 antipestilentials)

1. 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,^[4]

     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, London: Longman et al., 2nd ed., p. 665,^[5]

     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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