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Definition of Averters
1. averter [n] - See also: averter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Averters
Literary usage of Averters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it is with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1883)
"... hemp-seed, nutmegs, willows, with their seeds, juice, decoctions, dis- you
have used all good means and helps of alteratives, averters, diminutives, ..."
2. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes by Robert Burton (1838)
"Diet, preparatives, purges, averters, cordials, correctors, as before : Cure of
me- Phlebotomy, in this kind more necessary, and more frequent, ..."
3. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes by Robert Burton (1821)
"Diet, preparatives, averters, cordials, purgers, as before, saving tin they must
not be so vehement. Use of peny-royal, wormwood, centaury sod, ..."
4. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it Is, with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1859)
"averters and purgers must go together, as tending all to the same purpose, to
divert this rebellious humour, and turn it another way. ..."
5. The Republic of Plato by Plato (1908)
"Nay, have we not the authority of Hesiod for affirming that when they are dead
469 ' They are holy angels upon the earth, authors of good, averters of evil, ..."
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