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Webster 1913 Edition
Antisplenetic
Anˊti-splen′e-tic
([GREEK]; see Splenetic, 277)
, Adj.
Good as a remedy against disease of the spleen.
– Noun.
An antisplenetic medicine.
Webster 1828 Edition
Antisplenetic
ANTISPLENET'IC
,Adj.
Good as a remedy in diseases of the spleen.
Definition 2024
antisplenetic
antisplenetic
English
Adjective
antisplenetic (not comparable)
- (archaic) Good as a remedy against disease of the spleen.
- (historical or literary) Acting against ill humor, associated with the spleen.
- 1975, Susan G. Auty, The comic spirit of eighteenth-century novels, page 32:
- His intentions were apparently as antisplenetic as Sterne's, though his book turned out to be more genial than mirthful, and therefore decidedly less efficacious in fighting the spleen.
- 2002, Rick Harsch, The sleep of Aborigines, page 45:
- So you're Spleen. I heard all about the antisplenetic antics of your brother. I lost a brother once — that's what got me my lifetime's worth of probation.
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