contraindicate

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

CONTRAINDICATE, verb transitive [contra and indicate.] In medicine, to indicate some method of cure, contrary to that which the general tenor of the disease requires; or to forbid that to be done which the main scope of the malady points out.
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