antipestilential

English

Etymology

From anti- +‎ pestilential.

Adjective

antipestilential (comparative more antipestilential, superlative most antipestilential)

1. 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,^[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”, in et al.‎^[3], London: E. Nutt, page 36:

     Antipestilential Pills.

Noun

antipestilential (plural 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^[5], 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.