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Definition of Contaminative
1. Adjective. Making impure by contact or mixing.
Definition of Contaminative
1. Adjective. That contaminates ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Contaminative
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Contaminative
Literary usage of Contaminative
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sanitary Entomology: The Entomology of Disease, Hygiene and Sanitation by William Dwight Pierce (1921)
"When insects carry disease germs to food or water we speak of the transmission
as contaminative. contaminative transmission of disease organisms to food by ..."
2. Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms by Frederic Sturges Allen (1920)
"... perversive, debauching, degrading; spec, contaminative. Antonyms: see
PURIFICATORY, REFORMATIVE. corset, n. bodice (nbs.), stays (pi. ..."
3. The Harvey Lectures by Harvey Society of New York, New York Academy of Medicine (1914)
"He therefore concluded that the mode of infection is contaminative through the
tick's excreta, and not active through its proboscis. ..."
4. Hygiene of Communicable Diseases: A Handbook for Sanitarians, Medical by Francis Merton Munson, John Harington, Francis Randolph Packard, Fielding Hudson Garrison (1920)
"It is therefore a contaminative method of infection. (Stitt.) The infection of
man by the tick is also by the contamination method, material from the feces ..."
5. Insects and Human Welfare: An Account of the More Important Relations of by Charles Thomas Brues (1920)
"... although from the very nature of such diseases, insects are not exclusive
factors, and may be referred to as contaminative carriers. ..."
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