a. and sb. Med. [f. Gr. ἀν priv. + ἀφροδῑσιακ-ός venereal.] A. adj. That diminishes sexual appetite. B. sb. A drug having this tendency; an antaphrodisiac.
1823. Paris & Fonbl., Med. Jurispr., I. 209. The anaphrodisiac powers of camphor were long believed.
1865. Farre, Mat. Med., 587. Drastic cathartics act as anaphrodisiacs.
1875. Wood, Therap. (1879), 146. Stadion claims that digitalis … may be regarded as a true anaphrodisiac.
