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Standing before a sepal, or calyx leaf.

Prevention of sepsis by excluding or destroying microorganisms.

A substance which prevents or retards putrefaction, or destroys, or protects from, putrefactive organisms; as, salt, carbolic acid, alcohol, cinchona.

Counteracting or preventing putrefaction, or a putrescent tendency in the system; antiputrefactive. Antiseptic surgery, that system of surgical practice which insists upon a systematic use of antiseptics in the performance of operations and the dressing of wounds.

By means of antiseptics.

Checking the flow of saliva.

Opposed to slavery. -- n.

errupt or destroy social intercourse; averse to society, or hostile to its existence; as, antisocial principles.

One opposed to the doctrines and practices of socialists or socialism.

Opposite to the sun; -- said of the point in the heavens 180º distant from the sun.

Good against spasms. -- n.

A foot of four syllables, the first and fourth short, and the second and third long.

Counteracting spasms; antispasmodic. -- n.

An antisplenetic medicine.

e first of which, called strophe, was sung in turning from east to west; the other, named antistrophe, in returning from west to east; then they stood before the altar, and sang the epode, which was the last part of the song. Abp. Potter.

Of or pertaining to an antistrophe.

An argument retorted on an opponent. Milton.

Antistrumous. -- n.

Good against scrofulous disorders. Johnson. Wiseman.

Efficacious against syphilis. -- n.