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Definition of Preventives
1. preventive [n] - See also: preventive
Lexicographical Neighbors of Preventives
Literary usage of Preventives
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Financial Crises and Periods of Industrial and Commercial Depression by Theodore Elijah Burton (1902)
"CHAPTER VII Preventives AND REMEDIES Preventives Preventives may be viewed from
three standpoints—namely, those of I. Established laws; governmental control ..."
2. Detraction Displayed by Amelia Alderson Opie (1828)
"Preventives AGAINST DETRACTION. I HAVE now to the best of my ability illustrated
the name of my work, arid proved its right to the title of" Detraction ..."
3. Detraction Displayed by Amelia Alderson Opie (1828)
"Preventives AGAINST DETRACTION. Now, therefore, as the medical writer, after
giving a detail of different diseases, gives also such prescriptions as he ..."
4. Farm Friends and Farm Foes: A Text-book of Agricultural Science by Clarence Moores Weed (1910)
"The various fungicides are really preventives rather than remedies. They kill
the spores or mycelium threads upon the outer parts of the plants treated, ..."
5. Farm Friends and Farm Foes: A Text-book of Agricultural Science by Clarence Moores Weed (1910)
"The various fungicides are really preventives rather than remedies. They kill
the spores or mycelium threads upon the outer parts of the plants treated, ..."
6. The Cumulative Book Index by H.W. Wilson Company (1911)
"Hubbard, P. Dust preventives and road binders. *Î3. 'lu. Wiley. Johnson. S., сотр.
Good roads, pa. '10. ND Public library commission, Bismarck. ..."
7. Theology, Explained and Defended in a Series of Sermons ...: With a Memoir by Timothy Dwight (1824)
"IN the preceding Discourse I proposed to consider The nature, The causes, The
mischiefs, and The preventives of lying. The two first of these subjects I ..."
8. The Horticulturist's Rule-book: A Compendium of Useful Information for Fruit by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1895)
"PLANT-DISEASES, "WITH Preventives AND REMEDIES. As a general rule, all fungi
which attack the leaves and cause them to become spotted, ..."
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