Word Meanings - ANTISYPHILITIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Efficacious against syphilis. -- n.

Related words: (words related to ANTISYPHILITIC)

• AGAINSTAND
  To withstand.
• SYPHILIS
  The pox, or venereal disease; a chronic, specific, infectious disease, usually communicated by sexual intercourse or by hereditary transmission, and occurring in three stages known as primary, secondary, and tertiary syphilis. See under Primary,
• AGAINST
  1. Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over. Jacob saw the angels of God come against him. Tyndale. 2. From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in
• EFFICACIOUS
  Possessing the quality of being effective; productive of, or powerful to produce, the effect intended; as, an efficacious law. Syn. -- See Effectual. -- Ef`fi*ca"cious*ly, adv. -- Ef`fi*ca"cious*ness, n.
• INEFFICACIOUSLY
  without efficacy or effect.
• INEFFICACIOUS
  Not efficacious; not having power to produce the effect desired; inadequate; incompetent; inefficient; impotent. Boyle. The authority of Parliament must become inefficacious . . . to restrain the growth of disorders. Burke. Note: Ineffectual, says
• INEFFICACIOUSNESS
  Want of effect, or of power to produce the effect; inefficacy.