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eradicative, a. and n.|ɪˈrædɪkətɪv|
[f. L. ērādīcāt- (see eradicate v.) + -ive.]
A. adj. Tending or having the power to root out or expel (disease, etc.). Const. of.
† eradicative cure: orig. the ‘curative’ treatment of disease, as opposed to palliative. In later use the phrase occurs with cure taken in the mod. sense.
1543Traheron Vigo's Chirurg. 43 b, We wyll speake of his cure aswel eradicatyue as palliatyue. 1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. vi. 217 A certain Sweat..had been plainly critical and eradicative of the whole Disease. a1691Boyle Wks. V. 386 (R.) Copious evacuations eradicative of the morbific matter. 1711F. Fuller Med. Gymn. (1718) 143 To effect a compleat and Eradicative Cure of this Distemper. 1828in Webster; and in mod. Dicts.
†B. n. An eradicative medicine.
1654Whitlock Zootomia 88 Sometimes Eradicatives are omitted in the beginning. 1731–1800in Bailey. 1828in Webster. 1847in Craig; and in mod. Dicts. |