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Word Meanings - ANTICONTAGIOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Opposing or destroying contagion.

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  • OPPOSABILITY
    The condition or quality of being opposable. In no savage have I ever seen the slightest approach to opposability of the great toe, which is the essential distinguishing feature of apes. A. R. Wallace.
  • DESTROYABLE
    Destructible. Plants . . . scarcely destroyable by the weather. Derham.
  • OPPOSITIONIST
    One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed.
  • OPPOSITIVE
    Capable of being put in opposition. Bp. Hall.
  • OPPOSELESS
    Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. "Your great opposeless wills." Shak.
  • OPPOSITIFOLIOUS
    Placed at the same node with a leaf, but separated from it by the whole diameter of the stem; as, an oppositifolious peduncle.
  • CONTAGIONIST
    One who believes in the contagious character of certain diseases, as of yellow fever.
  • CONTAGIONED
    Affected by contagion.
  • OPPOSABLE
    1. Capable of being opposed or resisted. 2. Capable of being placed opposite something else; as, the thumb is opposable to the forefinger.
  • OPPOSE
    1. To place in front of, or over against; to set opposite; to exhibit. Her grace sat down . . . In a rich chair of state; opposing freely The beauty of her person to the people. Shak. 2. To put in opposition, with a view to counterbalance
  • OPPOSITISEPALOUS
    Placed in front of a sepal.
  • OPPOSITION
    The situation of a heavenly body with respect to another when in the part of the heavens directly opposite to it; especially, the position of a planet or satellite when its longitude differs from that of the sun 180º; -- signified by the symbol
  • CONTAGION
    The transmission of a disease from one person to another, by direct or indirect contact. Note: The term has been applied by some to the action of miasmata arising from dead animal or vegetable matter, bogs, fens, etc., but in this sense it is now
  • DESTROY
    destruire, F. détruire, fr. L. destruere, destructum; de + struere to 1. To unbuild; to pull or tear down; to separate virulently into its constituent parts; to break up the structure and organic existence of; to demolish. But ye shall destroy
  • OPPOSITENESS
    The quality or state of being opposite.
  • OPPOSITELY
    In a situation to face each other; in an opposite manner or direction; adversely. Winds from all quarters oppositely blow. May.
  • DESTROYER
    One who destroys, ruins, kills, or desolates.
  • OPPOSITE
    1. Placed over against; standing or situated over against or in front; facing; -- often with to; as, a house opposite to the Exchange. 2. Applied to the other of two things which are entirely different; other; as, the opposite sex; the opposite
  • OPPOSER
    One who opposes; an opponent; an antagonist; an adversary.
  • OPPOSITIPETALOUS
    Placed in front of a petal.
  • SELF-DESTROYER
    One who destroys himself; a suicide.
  • TORPEDO-BOAT DESTROYER
    A larger, swifter, and more powerful armed type of torpedo boat, originally intended principally for the destruction of torpedo boats, but later used also as a more formidable torpedo boat.
  • REOPPOSE
    To oppose again.

 

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