Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having medical properties; curing; tending to cure.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Medicinal; acting like a medicine.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Medicinal; acting like a
medicine .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having the properties of medicine
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Examples
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Very impossible to cure with anything less than medicative intervention – and even that will probably fail for most of them.
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That said, tales of psychological woe and emotional duress I could read ceaselessly, even rapaciously, with medicative effect.
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The effort of Nature, exerting her medicative force to cast-out foreign impediments, and once more become One, become whole?
Paras. 40-58 1909
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Cocaine has been used, and still is in some limited cases, for its medicative purposes.
xml's Blinklist.com 2008
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