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Prophylactical   Listen
adjective
Prophylactical, Prophylactic  adj.  (Med.) Defending or preserving from disease; preventive.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Prophylactical" Quotes from Famous Books



... they are doing their bodies such sad mischief. But don't exaggerate it; don't be too shocked; don't condemn the poor little sinners, who are also victims, too severely. Charity toward wrong-doing is the best prophylactic against imitation. We never feel the lure of a sin which grieves us in another; but often the call of a sin which we too strongly condemn. Because the very strength of the condemnation rouses our imaginations, is in itself an emotion, ...
— Study of Child Life • Marion Foster Washburne

... prophylactic. He was moral both by inheritance and necessity, and his parents, people of fair intelligence, if rather ineffective, stern principles, and good old average ideals, had taken their responsibilities toward their two children very seriously. People who ...
— The Sisters-In-Law • Gertrude Atherton

... vigor and had retrained my dietary habits. About 1983 Isabelle and I also began using Life Extension megavitamins as a therapy against the aging process. Feeling so much better I began to find the incredibly boring weeks of prophylactic fasting too difficult to motivate myself to do, and I stopped. Since that time I fast only when acutely ill. Generally less than one week on water handles any non-optimum health condition I've had since '84. I am only 54 years old as I write these words, so I hope it will be many, many years ...
— How and When to Be Your Own Doctor • Dr. Isabelle A. Moser with Steve Solomon



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