antipestilential

== English == === Etymology === From anti- +‎ pestilential. === Adjective === antipestilential (comparative more antipestilential, superlative most antipestilential) 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, === Noun === antipestilential (plural antipestilentials) 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. === References ===