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Making; having power to make. [Obs.] "You are . . . factive, not destructive." Bacon.

Counteracting, or preserving from, putrefaction; antiseptic.

See Calefactory. [R.]

Producing, or converting into, chyle; having the power to form chyle.

Serving to heat; warming. [Obs.] Cotgrave.

Cooling. [Obs.] Boyle.

Stupefactive. [Obs.]

See Olfactory, a.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, petrifaction. The . . . petrifactive mutations of hard bodies. Sir T. Browne.

Of or pertaining to putrefaction; as, the putrefactive smell or process. Wiseman.

Satisfactory. [Obs.] Satisfactive discernment of fish. Sir T. Browne.

Same as Stupefacient. [Written also stupifactive.]

and need oxygen for their growth; as the microbacteria which form on the surface of putrefactive fluids.

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

ounteracting 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.

Chylifactive.

Chylifactive.

Petrifying; petrifactive. Death with his mace petrific, cold and dry. Milton.

Proceeding from putrefaction, or partaking of the putrefactive process; having an offensive smell; stinking; rotten.

Producing stupefaction; stupefactive. -- n. (Med.)