Word Meanings - PREVENTATIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.

PREVENTATIVE
That which prevents; -- incorrectly used instead of preventive.
RESTORATIVELY
In a restorative manner.
ALTERATIVE
Causing ateration. Specifically:
RESTORATIVE
Of or pertaining to restoration; having power to restore. Destroys life's enemy, Hunger, with sweet restorative delight. Milton.
REGULATIVE
Necessarily assumed by the mind as fundamental to all other knowledge; furnishing fundamental principles; as, the regulative principles, or principles a priori; the regulative faculty. Sir W. Hamilton. Note: These terms are borrowed from Kant, and
CORRECTIVE
1. Having the power to correct; tending to rectify; as, corrective penalties. Mulberries are pectoral, corrective of billious alkali. Arbuthnot. 2. Qualifying; limiting. "The Psalmist interposeth . . . this corrective particle." Holdsworth.
SELF-REGULATIVE
Tending or serving to regulate one's self or itself. Whewell.