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contraceptive, n. and a.|kɒntrəˈsɛptɪv|
[f. contra- + conceptive a.]
A. n. A device, drug, etc., for procuring contraception.
B. adj. Pertaining to or procuring contraception. Hence contraˈceptively adv., by contraception; so as to produce contraception.
1891Ida Ellis Essentials of Conception 18 A person once accused me of wrong doing in advocating contraceptives. 1897J. McCabe in Literary Guide 1 Oct. 145/2 Every Catholic knows that the Church has forbidden the use of contraceptives under ‘the pain of mortal sin’. 1918Edin. Rev. Apr. 252 The distinction between ‘artificial’ and ‘natural’ contraceptives. 1918R. B. Armitage Private Sex Advice to Women x. 130 A ‘contraceptive’ agency merely tends to prevent or obviate undesirable conception. 1921Brit. Med. Jrnl. 20 Aug. 302/1 A knowledge of contraceptive methods. 1923Stopes Contraception 5 The result [of present economic conditions] too often is the use of harmful contraceptives. Ibid. 233 The Church however has already yielded the principle of the use of contraceptive means. 1929E. V. & A. D. Lindsay Birth Control 67 Would they accept physical union made contraceptively sterile? 1963A. Heron et al. Towards Quaker View of Sex ii. 18 The fear of pregnancy, (which modern contraceptives are steadily reducing). 1964Economist 21 Mar. 1082/1 A contraceptively cold winter which prevented cows coming into calf. 1969Times 17 Feb. 10/8 The contraceptive pill did not become available until after the period of study. 1970Daily Tel. 17 July 2/8 Of 30 patients with thrombo-embolism 12, or 40 per cent, had been using oral contraceptives during the month preceding surgery. |