Pasteurism
English
Etymology
Pasteur + -ism
Proper noun
Pasteurism
- (dated) The prevention of certain diseases by successive inoculations with an attenuated virus of gradually increasing strength.
- (dated) pasteurisation
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for Pasteurism in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Anagrams
- impastures, marsupites