contraindicant

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

contra- +‎ indicant

Noun[edit]

contraindicant (plural contraindicants)

  1. (medicine) A contraindication.
    • 1796, Edmund Burke, A Letter from the Right Honourable Edmund Burke to a Noble Lord, on the Attacks Made upon Him and His Pension, [], 10th edition, London: [] J. Owen, [], and F[rancis] and C[harles] Rivington, [], →OCLC:
      Throughout it was full of contraindicants. On one hand Government, daily growing more invidious for an apparent increase of the means of strength, was every day growing more contemptible by real weakness. [] On the other hand []