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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

Other treatises, such as the Apologetical Vindication of the Church of England, are to be met with in Edmund Gibson’s Preservative against Popery.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 4 "Hero" to "Hindu Chronology" by Various

Bishop Gibson reprinted the tract in his Preservative against Popery, London, 1738, fol. vol. ii. tit. vii. pp.

From Notes and Queries, Number 72, March 15, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George

In May of 1717, convocation met and the Lower House immediately adopted an unanimous report condemning the "Preservative" and the sermon.

From Political Thought in England from Locke to Bentham by Laski, Harold Joseph




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