Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Preventive or curative of rabies.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Med.) Counteracting or preventing hydrophobia.
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- adjective Counteracting or preventing
hydrophobia . - noun rare A
remedy forhydrophobia .
Etymologies
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anti- + hydrophobic
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Examples
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This plant enjoyed great reputation at one time, and was said to possess sudorific, vulnerary, antiepileptic, and antihydrophobic virtues.
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Méd. vi, 274; Bulletin de la Faculté, vii, 191, ann. 1820, where Spalding's (of Geo.) report concerning its antihydrophobic virtues is referred to.
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