Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Mitigating or expelling fever.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having the quality of mitigating or curing fever.
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- adjective Acting against or preventing
fever .
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Examples
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A typical example of such a defensive reaction is fever; and it is therefore often misguided and even harmful to fight fever with febrifugal remedies.
C. G. Jung and Psychosynthesis, by Roberto Assagioli William Harryman 2009
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The stems and roots of _G. amarella_ and _campestris_, British species, and _G. cruciata, purpurea, punctata_, &c., are similar in their effects, having tonic, stomachic, and febrifugal properties.
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It yields a bitter oil, and is supposed to possess febrifugal properties.
The Social History of Smoking George Latimer Apperson 1897
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But Michael Scott's noisy amorous novel of adventure was an extraordinary book to put in the hands of a child who had never been allowed to glance at the mildest and most febrifugal story-book.
Father and Son: a study of two temperaments Edmund Gosse 1888
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The country - people in that part of France, as in the Aveyron, use this little plant largely as a febrifugal infusion; they also drink it as tea.
The Roof of France Matilda Betham-Edwards 1877
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It contains species with purgative, acrid, and febrifugal properties.
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(The Coffee Tribe.) The grand features of this order are powerful febrifugal properties in the bark and emetic in the root.
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The plant is emetic, tonic, and febrifugal; one drachm of the powder of the flowers in wine, with a decoction of the leaves, is said to be invaluable in anorexia, weak stomach, impaired by irregularities of diet, atony, jaundice, and tertian fevers; Thorn.
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The berries of the English holly are said to be purgative, and six or eight of them swallowed will produce violent vomiting; the bark is said to be febrifugal.
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(The Tatsan Tribe.) The juice of many of the species is slightly purgative and febrifugal.
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