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preservative

[pri-zur-vuh-tiv] / prɪˈzɜr və tɪv /


NOUN
hygienic preserver
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NOUN
chemical compound
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For treating leather boots, our staff at Wirecutter likes Obenauf’s Heavy Duty Leather Preservative.

From Slate • Nov. 9, 2018

Patrick Smith's Preservative against Quakerism and The Faith and Practice of a Church of England Man, missionaries carried with them local helps such as Bishop Wilson's Essay Towards the Instruction of the Indians.

From Time Magazine Archive

Realize that in Gibson's "Preservative" there are not less than ten volumes of such writing!

From The Profits of Religion by Sinclair, Upton

From hence he did infer, that a regular Life is an excellent Preservative against all natural Ills; and that Intemperance produces quite contrary Effects.

From Medicina Flagellata Or, The Doctor Scarify'd by Anonymous

Wharton's Treatise of the Celibacy of the Clergy, in Gibson's Preservative against Popery, fol.

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 105, November 1, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various




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