Word Meanings - CONTAGIUM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Contagion; contagious matter. "Contagium of measles." Tyndall.

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• CONTAGIUM
  Contagion; contagious matter. "Contagium of measles." Tyndall.
• CONTAGIONIST
  One who believes in the contagious character of certain diseases, as of yellow fever.
• CONTAGIONED
  Affected by contagion.
• CONTAGIOUSLY
  In a contagious manner.
• MATTERLESS
  1. Not being, or having, matter; as, matterless spirits. Davies 2. Unimportant; immaterial.
• CONTAGIOUSNESS
  Quality of being contagious.
• CONTAGION
  The transmission of a disease from one person to another, by direct or indirect contact. Note: The term has been applied by some to the action of miasmata arising from dead animal or vegetable matter, bogs, fens, etc., but in this sense it is now
• MATTER-OF-FACT
  Adhering to facts; not turning aside from absolute realities; not fanciful or imaginative; commonplace; dry.
• MEASLES
  Leprosy; also, a leper.
• MATTERY
  1. Generating or containing pus; purulent. 2. Full of substance or matter; important. B. Jonson.
• CONTAGIOUS DISEASE
  A disease communicable by contact with a patient suffering from it, or with some secretion of, or object touched by, such a patient. Most such diseases have already been proved to be germ diseases, and their communicability depends on
• MATTER
  That which is permanent, or is supposed to be given, and in or upon which changes are effected by psychological or physical processes and relations; -- opposed to form. Mansel. (more info) 1. That of which anything is composed; constituent
• CONTAGIOUS
  Communicable by contact, by a virus, or by a bodily exhalation; catching; as, a contagious disease. 2. Conveying or generating disease; pestilential; poisonous; as, contagious air. 3. Spreading or communicable from one to another; exciting similar
• SMATTERER
  One who has only a slight, superficial knowledge; a sciolist.
• SUBJECT-MATTER
  The matter or thought presented for consideration in some statement or discussion; that which is made the object of thought or study. As to the subject-matter, words are always to be understood as having a regard thereto. Blackstone. As science
• SMATTERING
  A slight, superficial knowledge of something; sciolism. I had a great desire, not able to attain to a superficial skill in any, to have some smattering in all. Burton.
• ANTICONTAGIOUS
  Opposing or destroying contagion.
• NONCONTAGIOUS
  Not contagious; not catching; not communicable by contact. -- Non`con*ta"gious*ness, n.
• SMATTER
  to clatter, to crackle, G. schmettern to dash, crash, to warble, 1. To talk superficially or ignorantly; to babble; to chatter. Of state affairs you can not smatter. Swift. 2. To have a slight taste, or a slight, superficial knowledge, of anything;