alexipyretic

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek a- + burning heat, fever, fire.

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Adjective

alexipyretic (comparative more alexipyretic, superlative most alexipyretic)

1. (medicine, archaic) Countering fever; antifebrile.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “alexipyretic”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)