Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Capable of reducing fever; antipyretic.
  • noun An agent that reduces fever.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having the property of abating fever; opposing or tending to cure fever; antipyretic.
  • noun An antipyretic (which see).

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • (Med.) Febrifuge.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Countering fever.
  • noun A medicine or substance that counters fever.

Etymologies

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anti- +‎ febrile

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Examples

  • The extreme bitterness of the substance precluded all doubt; it was certainly the precious extract of quinine, that pre-eminent antifebrile.

    The Mysterious Island 2005

  • The extreme bitterness of the substance precluded all doubt; it was certainly the precious extract of quinine, that pre-eminent antifebrile.

    The Mysterious Island 2005

  • He also doubled your memory with antifebrile purgatives, magnified your morals with tonic roborants, and adjusted all anguished psyches with Orel's Epulotic Vulnerary.

    The Stars My Destination Bester, Alfred 1956

  • He also doubled your memory with antifebrile purgatives, magnified your morals with tonic roborants, and adjusted all anguished psyches with Orel's Epulotic Vulnerary.

    The Stars My Destination Bester, Alfred 1956

  • I went to him on Friday by appointment when I had finished the antifebrile powders.

    Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1883

  • The extreme bitterness of the substance precluded all doubt; it was certainly the precious extract of quinine, that pre-eminent antifebrile.

    The Secret of the Island Jules Verne 1866

  • Its fruit, which seldom gets ripe before it is eaten by the birds or larvæ, is luscious, highly scented, and full of pips; they have the reputation of being antifebrile and astringent.

    Aventures d'un jeune naturaliste. English Lucien Biart 1863

  • We shall here confine ourselves to this observation, that, in the species of the genus cinchona, the antifebrile virtues do not appear to belong to the tannin (which is only accidentally mingled in them), or to the cinchonate of lime; but in a resiniform matter, soluble both by alcohol and by water, and which, it is believed, is composed of two principles, the cinchonic bitter and the cinchonic red.

    Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

  • We shall here confine ourselves to this observation, that, in the species of the genus cinchona, the antifebrile virtues do not appear to belong to the tannin (which is only accidentally mingled in them), or to the cinchonate of lime; but in a resiniform matter, soluble both by alcohol and by water, and which, it is believed, is composed of two principles, the cinchonic bitter and the cinchonic red.

    Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Alexander von Humboldt 1814

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