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antisplenetic

adj

Etymology

From anti- + splenetic.

  1. derived from splen
  2. borrowed from spleneticus
  3. prefixed as antisplenetic — “anti + splenetic”

Definitions

  1. Good as a remedy against disease of the spleen.

  2. Acting against ill humor, associated with the spleen.

    • His intentions were apparently as antisplenetic as Sterne's, though his book turned out to be more genial than mirthful, and therefore decidedly less efficacious in fighting the spleen.
    • So you're Spleen. I heard all about the antisplenetic antics of your brother. I lost a brother once — that's what got me my lifetime's worth of probation.
    • As David Woolley has shown, Swift engineered an advertisement for the Tub, in the Morning Post, as an antisplenetic volume.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA