Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having the power to cure; healing or restorative: a sanative environment of mountains and fresh air.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having the power to cure or heal; healing; tending to heal; sanatory.
Wiktionary
- adj. That cures or restores; curative or restorative
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Having the power to cure or heal; healing; tending to heal; sanatory.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. tending to cure or restore to health
Etymologies
- Middle English sanatif, from Old French, from Late Latin sānātīvus, from Latin sānātus, past participle of sānāre, to heal; see sanatorium.
Examples
“Figures of those who taught the good and sanative Use of Plants; the last taught their poisonous, baneful, and diabolick Qualities.”
““Meaning that the body of society has a sanative responsibility to destroy Jews?””
“This forthright radicalism—this embrace of the sanative powers of violence—became quickly accepted as the ineluctable meaning of conservatism in foreign policy.”
“Not that I might not have learned this sooner and more safely, in ways 1 shall now never know, without apostasy, but that Divine punishments are also mercies, and particular good is worked ant of particular evil, and the penal blindness made sanative.”
Surprised by Joy
“Jasper, hematite and hieratite stones were strongly recommended for unusual sanative virtues, but the sapphire excelled as a remedy for scorpion bites.”
“When the prejudices of medical men against the artificial induction of trance have subsided, and its sanative agency has been fairly tried, and diligently studied, there is no doubt it will take a high rank among the resources of medicine.”
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847
“And as this sanative tea is offered as a substitute for what is generally used as two fourths of our aliment, and which, from the preceding enquiry, has been found the principal cause of our present infirmities, the greater necessity there is for a candid investigation of its nature.”
“By a second class of aromatics, with which Dr. Solander composed this sanative tea, is such as have a bitter astringency joined to their volatile oil and salt.”
“It may therefore be used as a morning beverage with the greatest advantage, for the preservation and re-establishment of health; for never were the qualities of any aliment so particularly adapted to the necessities of the body at any stated period as those of the sanative tea are at the time of breakfast.”
“And as every salutary change of the fluids is made in the smallest vessels, the sanative tea possessing the power of conveying nutrition into the most minute channels of the body, the liquids must derive from it the greatest renovation.”
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