Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having or exhibiting healing powers: a therapeutic agent; therapeutic exercises.
- adj. Of or relating to therapeutics.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Curative; pertaining to the healing art; concerned in discovering and applying remedies for diseases. Also therapeutical.
- n. One of the Therapeutæ.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. (Med.) Of or pertaining to the healing art; concerned in discovering and applying remedies for diseases; curative.
- n. One of the Therapeutæ.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. tending to cure or restore to health
- adj. relating to or involved in therapy
- n. a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain
Etymologies
- From New Latin therapeuticus ("curing, healing"), from Ancient Greek θεραπευτικός (therapeutikos, "attentive, helpful, obliging, curative"), from θεραπευτής (therapeutēs, "one who waits on another, an attendant"), from θεραπεύω (therapeuō, "I wait on, attend, serve, cure"). (Wiktionary)
- New Latin therapeuticus, from Greek therapeutikos, from therapeutēs, one who administers, from therapeuein, to serve, administer treatment, from theraps, therap-, attendant; see therapy. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The American Life League, an anti-abortion group, says on its website that "the use of the term 'therapeutic' is another pro-abortion attempt to sanitize a repulsive act.”
“Mr. Farthing is among a number of soldiers who had informally adopted stray dogs during their tours of duty for what he calls therapeutic value.”
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“So we have developed at Cedar Sinai in our laboratory, what we call a therapeutic brain cancer vaccine, where we actually take the tumor out at surgery.”
“WEST: What we're saying is that we've done the first step toward what we call therapeutic cloning.”
“For example, there are hundreds of studies that show that a purposeful collaborative relationship between a therapist and the patient - what we call the therapeutic alliance - is related to therapeutic progress.”
“Spreading atomic waste throughout the entire cosmos is not what I call a therapeutic activity," retorted Mila.”
“Dual Internship students must be college seniors or graduates with a major or concentration in therapeutic recreation.”
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“Internship students must be college seniors or graduates with a major or concentration in therapeutic recreation.”
Therapeutic recreation student program types and applications
“They are popular in therapeutic riding programs because they are gentle with the kids.”
“There are prostitutes who specialise in therapeutic srvices with disabled people.”
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
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Lingering Irritation
Intensely disliked words from (a) grad program(s) in social sciences. At first they sound tricky and important. Take note! "Modeling is an important aspect in education. Eschew obfuscation."
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Tweets
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vermontster Sometime it gets used to describe things that should be (should have been), rather than things done specifically for their therapeutic value. Jun 28, 2008