Word Meanings - ANTASTHMATIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Opposing, or fitted to relieve, asthma. -- n.

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• OPPOSABILITY
  The condition or quality of being opposable. In no savage have I ever seen the slightest approach to opposability of the great toe, which is the essential distinguishing feature of apes. A. R. Wallace.
• OPPOSITIONIST
  One who belongs to the opposition party. Praed.
• OPPOSITIVE
  Capable of being put in opposition. Bp. Hall.
• OPPOSELESS
  Not to be effectually opposed; irresistible. "Your great opposeless wills." Shak.
• OPPOSITIFOLIOUS
  Placed at the same node with a leaf, but separated from it by the whole diameter of the stem; as, an oppositifolious peduncle.
• RELIEVEMENT
  The act of relieving, or the state of being relieved; relief; release.
• OPPOSABLE
  1. Capable of being opposed or resisted. 2. Capable of being placed opposite something else; as, the thumb is opposable to the forefinger.
• OPPOSE
  1. To place in front of, or over against; to set opposite; to exhibit. Her grace sat down . . . In a rich chair of state; opposing freely The beauty of her person to the people. Shak. 2. To put in opposition, with a view to counterbalance
• OPPOSITISEPALOUS
  Placed in front of a sepal.
• FITTEDNESS
  The state or quality of being fitted; adaptation. Dr. H. More.
• OPPOSITION
  The situation of a heavenly body with respect to another when in the part of the heavens directly opposite to it; especially, the position of a planet or satellite when its longitude differs from that of the sun 180º; -- signified by the symbol
• FITTING
  Anything used in fitting up; especially ,
• OPPOSITENESS
  The quality or state of being opposite.
• ASTHMATIC; ASTHMATICAL
  Of or pertaining to asthma; as, an asthmatic cough; liable to, or suffering from, asthma; as, an asthmatic patient. -- Asth*mat"ic*al*ly, adv.
• ASTHMATIC
  A person affected with asthma.
• OPPOSITELY
  In a situation to face each other; in an opposite manner or direction; adversely. Winds from all quarters oppositely blow. May.
• ASTHMA
  A disease, characterized by difficulty of breathing (due to a spasmodic contraction of the bronchi), recurring at intervals, accompanied with a wheezing sound, a sense of constriction in the chest, a cough, and expectoration.
• FITTABLE
  Suitable; fit. Sherwood.
• RELIEVE
  discharge, relieve, fr. L. relevare to lift up, raise, make light, relieve; pref. re- re- + levare to raise, fr. levis light. See 1. To lift up; to raise again, as one who has fallen; to cause to rise. Piers Plowman. 2. To cause to seem to rise;
• FITT
  See FIT
• ANTASTHMATIC
  Opposing, or fitted to relieve, asthma. -- n.
• OUTFITTER
  One who furnishes outfits for a voyage, a journey, or a business.
• BEFITTINGLY
  In a befitting manner; suitably.
• REOPPOSE
  To oppose again.