Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Preventing or checking fermentation or zymosis; antizymic.
- noun That which prevents fermentation, as in brewing; a preventive of or remedy for zymotic disease.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Med.) Preventing fermentation or decomposition.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective medicine Preventing
fermentation ordecomposition . - noun medicine A substance that prevents
fermentation ordecomposition .
Etymologies
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anti- + zymotic
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Examples
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The sting of the bees is used not only for defense, but quite principally serves the important purpose of contributing to the stored honey an antizymotic and antiseptic substance.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 514, November 7, 1885 Various
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-. preventive of fermentation. antizymotic n. adj. - applied to places in opposite hemispheres but in same latitude and longitude. antoecians, n. pl. persons living in such places.
xml's Blinklist.com 2008
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