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Tending to prevent sleep. -- n.

mes and Jude, the second Epistle of Peter, the second and third Epistles of John, and the Revelation. The undisputed books are called the Homologoumena.

Tending to prevent the formation of urinary calculi, or to destroy them when formed. -- n.

A cover for the back or arms of a chair or sofa, etc., to prevent them from being soiled by macassar or other oil from the hair.

A remedy possessing the property of preventing the return of periodic paroxysms, or exacerbations, of disease, as in intermittent fevers.

Preventing or checking the process of healing, or granulation.

Checking or preventing suppuration. -- n.

Efficacious in preventing or allaying fever. -- n.

Anything of use in preventing or healing burns or pyrosis.

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.

A medicine which prevents or allays spasms or convulsions.

Preventing the contagion of smallpox.

Preventing fermentation.

Preventing fermentation or decomposition. -- n.

With quick beating or palpitation; pitapat. Congreve.

The revelation delivered to St. John, in the isle of Patmos, near the close of the first century, forming the last book of the New Testament.

Of or pertaining to a revelation, or, specifically, to the Revelation of St. John; containing, or of the nature of, a prophetic revelation. Apocolyptic number, the number 666, mentioned in Rev. xiii. 18. It has been variously interpreted.

By revelation; in an apocalyptic manner.