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Definition of Preventive |
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Preventive
Going before; preceding. Tending to defeat or hinder; obviating; preventing the access of; as, a medicine preventive of disease. That which prevents, hinders, or obstructs; that which intercepts access; in medicine, something to prevent disease; a prophylactic. Related Definitions: Access, As, Before, Defeat, Disease, Going, Hinder, In, Medicine, Obviating, Of, Or, Preceding, Prevent, Preventing, Preventive, Prophylactic, Something, Tending, That, The, To, Which |
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Preventive Quotations
When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war. Dwight D. Eisenhower As soon as one nation claims the right to take preventive action, other countries will naturally do the same. If we go down that road, where are we going? Jacques Chirac Next to the love of God, the love of country is the best preventive of crime. George Borrow I am against preventive war because it means measures by the UN against us. Moshe Sharett This system of encouragement proves serviceable as a preventive of punishment, the attainment of the tickets being a reward, the forfeiture of them the reverse; and, as such, boys seem often more affected by their loss than by coercion. Joseph Lancaster |
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