Word Meanings - REMEDIAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Affording a remedy; intended for a remedy, or for the removal or abatement of an evil; as, remedial treatment. Statutes are declaratory or remedial. Blackstone. It is an evil not compensated by any beneficial result; it is not remedial,
Additional info about word: REMEDIAL
Affording a remedy; intended for a remedy, or for the removal or abatement of an evil; as, remedial treatment. Statutes are declaratory or remedial. Blackstone. It is an evil not compensated by any beneficial result; it is not remedial, not conservative. I. Taylor.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of REMEDIAL)
- Restorative
- Compensatory
- remedial
- reparatory
- invigorating
- Sanatory
- Curative
- sanative
- therapeutic
- hygienic
- sanitary
Related words: (words related to REMEDIAL)
- RESTORATIVELY
In a restorative manner. - SANITARY
Of or pertaining to health; designed to secure or preserve health; relating to the preservation or restoration of health; hygienic; as, sanitary regulations. See the Note under Sanatory. Sanitary Commission. See under Commission. - INVIGORATION
The act of invigorating, or the state of being invigorated. - REMEDIAL
Affording a remedy; intended for a remedy, or for the removal or abatement of an evil; as, remedial treatment. Statutes are declaratory or remedial. Blackstone. It is an evil not compensated by any beneficial result; it is not remedial, - REMEDIALLY
In a remedial manner. - HYGIENICS
The science of health; hygiene. - HYGIENIC
Of or pertaining to health or hygiene; sanitary. - INVIGORATE
To give vigor to; to strengthen; to animate; to give life and energy to. Christian graces and virtues they can not be, unless fed, invigorated, and animated by universal charity. Atterbury. Syn. -- To refresh; animate; exhilarate; stimulate. - THERAPEUTIC
One of the Therapeutæ. - RESTORATIVE
Of or pertaining to restoration; having power to restore. Destroys life's enemy, Hunger, with sweet restorative delight. Milton. - THERAPEUTICS
That part of medical science which treats of the discovery and application of remedies for diseases. - COMPENSATORY
Serving for compensation; making amends. Jer. Taylor. - THERAPEUTIC; THERAPEUTICAL
Of or pertaining to the healing art; concerned in discovering and applying remedies for diseases; curative. "Therapeutic or curative physic." Sir T. Browne. Medicine is justly distributed into "prophylactic," or the art of preserving health, and - SANATORY
Conducive to health; tending to cure; healing; curative; sanative. Sanatory ordinances for the protection of public health, such as quarantine, fever hospitals, draining, etc. De Quincey. Note: Sanatory and sanitary should not be confounded. - SANATIVE
Having the power to cure or heal; healing; tending to heal; sanatory. -- San"a*tive*ness, n. - CURATIVE
Relating to, or employed in, the cure of diseases; tending to cure. Arbuthnot. - REINVIGORATE
To invigorate anew. - INSANITARY
Not sanitary; unhealthy; as, insanitary conditions of drainage. - DISINVIGORATE
To enervate; to weaken. Sydney Smith. - ELECTRO-THERAPEUTICS
The branch of medical science which treats of the applications agent. - PREPARATORY
Preparing the way for anything by previous measures of adaptation; antecedent and adapted to what follows; introductory; preparative; as, a preparatory school; a preparatory condition. - HYDROTHERAPEUTICS
A system of treating disease by baths and mineral waters.