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therapeutical, a. (n.)|θɛrəˈpjuːtɪkəl|
[f. as prec. + -al1.]
a. = prec. 1. (In first quot. absol.)
1605Daniel Queen's Arcadia iii. ii, We must now Descend unto the Therapeutical. 1640Chilmead tr. Ferrand's Love Melanch. xxxvii. 336 This Remedy..should rather be Prophylacticall, for Prevention of the disease, then Therapeuticall, for the Cure of it. 1657[see prophylactical]. 1703T. S. Art's Improv. p. xxv. 1843R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. Introd. Lect. 21 Observation of the progress of symptoms and the effects of therapeutical agents. 1950G. B. Shaw Farfetched Fables Pref. 90 Such a public department should be manned not by chemists analyzing the advertized wares and determining their therapeutical value, but by mathematicians criticizing their statistical pretentions. 1952E. Hobsbawm in Granta 15 Nov. 12/1 We did not take to politics for therapeutical or aesthetic reasons.
b. n. A therapeutic substance, a medicine.
1845Ford Handbk. Spain ii. xiii. 967/2 Mineral therapeuticals still remain a..dead letter.
Hence theraˈpeutically adv., in a therapeutic manner; in relation to therapeutics.
1875H. C. Wood Therap. (1879) 97 Dr. Leand affirms that the oxide of manganese is therapeutically equivalent to the preparations of bismuth excepting in that it does not constipate. 1885G. H. Taylor Pelv. & Hern. Therap. 28 The local parts are by no means independent, therapeutically, as local therapeutics seem to imply. |