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Sterilised

adjective
1.
Made infertile.  Synonym: sterilized.






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"Sterilised" Quotes from Famous Books



... dining-room to the strains of the Blue Danubian Band. We'll give him "La Boheme" before the "poularde"; and the Maxixe during. A Terrible Turk shall give him coffee (with Coon accompaniment); and we'll send him home with a silver-mounted sterilised tooth-pick and presents for Madame and ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, April 29, 1914 • Various

... don't know; babies were born, and survived cradles and mothers' arms and kisses long before sterilised ...
— The Danger Mark • Robert W. Chambers

... reproduction, nor time, space, and motion themselves are logically deducible, nor intelligible in terms of their limits. The phenomena have to be accepted at their face value and allowed to retain a certain empirical complexity; otherwise the seed of all science is sterilised and calculation cannot proceed for want of ...
— The Life of Reason • George Santayana



Words linked to "Sterilised" :   unfertile, sterile, infertile



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