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In some senses, antisplenetic is marked as archaic, literary, historical. Watch for register when choosing this word.
antisplenetic
adj 2
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5ADJ.
all
VERB + ANTISPLENETIC
post
ANTISPLENETIC + NOUN
antics, sterne's, volume
PREP.
about
ADV.
apparently
Definitions
adj
1
Good as a remedy against disease of the spleen.
2
Acting against ill humor, associated with the spleen.
His intentions were apparently as antisplenetic as Sterne's, though his book turned out to be more genial than mirthful, and therefore decidedly less efficacious in fighting the spleen.
So you're Spleen. I heard all about the antisplenetic antics of your brother. I lost a brother once — that's what got me my lifetime's worth of probation.
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His intentions were apparently as antisplenetic as Sterne's, though his book turned out to be more genial than mirthful, and therefore decidedly less efficacious in fighting the spleen.
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So you're Spleen. I heard all about the antisplenetic antics of your brother. I lost a brother once — that's what got me my lifetime's worth of probation.
Wiktionary03
As David Woolley has shown, Swift engineered an advertisement for the Tub, in the Morning Post, as an antisplenetic volume.
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