febrifuge

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

FEB'RIFUGE, noun [Latin febris, fever, and fugo, to drive away.] Any medicine that mitigates or removes fever. FEB'RIFUGE, adjective Having the quality of mitigating or subduing fever; antifebrile.
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