Definitions
preventing or contributing to the prevention of disease
Word origin
Borrowed from New Latin praeventīvus. Equivalent to prevent + -ive.
Used in a sentence
“Physick is either curative or preventive.”
“Any previous counsel or preventive understanding.”
“Dogs should be warmly but airily housed; heartily, but not heatingly, fed — old Indian meal, mixed with oatmeal, suppawn, is the best general food, with a small quantity of salt, which is a preventive against worms […]”
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Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Meant to avert”10 letters
02“Meant to stop”10 letters
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