antibilious

American  

[an-tee-bil-yuhs, an-tahy-] / ˌæn tiˈbɪl jəs, ˌæn taɪ- /

adjective

1. serving to prevent or cure biliousness.

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Etymology

Origin of antibilious

First recorded in 1810–20; anti- + bilious

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Example Sentences

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antibilious

No creatures of their age had taken such quantities of Ching's lozenges, Godbold's elixir, or Dixon's antibilious pills.

From Tales and Novels — Volume 07 by Maria Edgeworth

We do not come upon monster advertisements of antibilious pills, hair dye, or soap amid olive groves and vineyards.

From In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" by Matilda Betham-Edwards

The matter of which it was composed was gas, of such an extraordinary and unimaginable gasiness that millions of cubic miles of it might easily be compressed into a common antibilious pill-box.

From Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science by Grant Allen

Or perhaps it would be best to wake him up and give him two antibilious pills.

From The Mystery of Cloomber by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

And with us the ruddy Solanum has obtained a wide popularity not simply at table as a tasty cooling sallet, or an appetising stew, but essentially as a supposed antibilious purifier of the blood.

From Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure by William Thomas Fernie

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