Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The art of maintaining health; hygiene; sanitary science.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The science of health; hygiene.
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- noun The
science ofhygiene
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- noun the science concerned with the prevention of illness and maintenance of health
Etymologies
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Examples
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There were at least a billion options, and I didn't know anything about the scientifically named ingredients of oral hygienics.
Danny Licht: Woes of a Consumer: Toothpaste Fragmentation Danny Licht 2011
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Food service, water, hygienics machinery, power distribution, communications - much of it specially modified to serve thranx as well as human needs.
Diuturnity's Dawn Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002
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Food service, water, hygienics machinery, power distribution, communications - much of it specially modified to serve thranx as well as human needs.
Diuturnity's Dawn Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2002
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But there were also other important objectives, specifically improving public health through better hygienics and sanitation, and providing additional effluents to be used as fertilizer in agriculture.
Chapter 3 1996
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Angry, frightened soldiers kept a wary eye on the humans while performing similar hygienics.
Mid Flinx Foster, Alan Dean 1995
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Angry, frightened soldiers kept a wary eye on the humans while performing similar hygienics.
Mid Flinx Foster, Alan Dean 1995
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From themselves; they was ` ` highjinnicks '' (hygienics).
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As a matter of fact, however, the æsthetics of the subject does not seem to have entered the national mind, any more than have the hygienics of the same subject.
Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic Sidney Lewis Gulick 1902
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Tappan, a heathenish idea persists that what they need more than hygienics and scientific discipline is some of that old-fashioned love -- love which rocks them when it is not good for them -- love which overfeeds them sometimes so that they yell with old-fashioned colic -- love which ventures a bacilli-laden kiss.
The Danger Mark A. B. [Illustrator] Wenzell 1899
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The practice of avoiding marital responsibility is frequently condemned by the medical press, even by the pulpit; but while M. D.'s and D. D.'s make a specialty of both gynecology and gyneolatry, neither seem to understand the spirit in which these sins against hygienics are committed.
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