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remedial, a.|rɪˈmiːdɪəl|
[ad. L. remediālis, f. remedium remedy: see -al1.]
1. Affording a remedy, tending to relieve or redress.
1651N. Bacon Disc. Govt. Eng. ii. xviii. (1739) 96 These Laws were but penal, and not remedial for the parties wronged. 1707Chamberlayne Pres. St. Eng. ii. xiv. 189 This Court proceeds..ordinarily..granting out Writs Mandatory and Remedial. 1765Blackstone Comm. I. 55 The remedial part of a law is so necessary a consequence of the former two [etc.]. 1770Burke Pres. Discont. Wks. 1842 I. 135/1 Every good political institution must have a preventive operation as well as a remedial. 1850McCosh Div. Govt. iv. ii. (1874) 473 The Gospel professes to be remedial, and remedial of an evil affecting the laws of God. 1862Goulburn Pers. Relig. iii. ix. (1873) 236 That suffering is a medicine, remedial though bitter.
2. Educ.
a. Designating or pertaining to special classes, teaching methods, etc., in basic educational skills to help school-children who have not achieved the proficiency necessary for them to be able to learn other subjects with their contemporaries.
1924E. M. Paulu (title) Diagnostic testing and remedial teaching. 1927Psychol. Abstr. I. 217 A group of 29 teachers..took a course in remedial reading... They applied to themselves the remedial techniques about which they were studying. 1942F. Schonell Backwardness in Basic Subj. x. 204 If remedial work with backward readers is to be effective, a teacher should have..detailed information from a thorough diagnosis... Remedial methods must have therapeutic as well as pedagogical value. 1975Language for Life (Dept. Educ. & Sci.) xviii. 270 Two groups of children were given remedial education, one in the Remedial Centre and one elsewhere. 1977Cork Examiner 8 June 4/9 The most urgent point here was the need to eliminate overcrowded classes by reducing the pupil-teacher ratio to not more than 35 pupils per teacher and the appointment of more remedial teachers. 1978Times Lit. Suppl. 1 Dec. 1394/2 Caught up in the whole nasty mess is the one other child character in the book, Manjit Mirza, a Sikh girl who shares Ronnie's remedial reading lessons.
b. Of a child: receiving or requiring remedial teaching.
1966New Statesman 22 Apr. 575/2 The youngest, according to her passport, is 11 years old. She looks and acts more like a remedial eight-year-old. 1969Word Study Feb. 1/1, I first became aware that something was amiss, neologically, when I heard a teacher refer to one of her students as ‘a remedial reader’. 1975Language for Life (Dept. Educ. & Sci.) xxv. 408 The average weekly time lay between 3 hrs. 12 mins. and 3 hrs. 22 mins. for all except the 12 year old ‘Remedial’ pupils. 1976Cumberland News 3 Dec. 10/2 And then there was the problem of finding somewhere for the remedial children, who need special teaching.
3. Concerned with or aimed at the overcoming of muscular disabilities or postural defects by means of special exercises.
1925H. E. Stewart Physiotherapy xxii. 321 Faulty postures and weight-bearing..will readily deform one [sc. a child] whose tissues are subnormal. It is of vital importance to discover these conditions early and institute proper remedial measures. 1943O. F. G. Smith Rehabilitation, Re-Education & Remedial Exercises i. 9 When the patient has learnt to use the appliance,..whether a piece of needlework or a remedial apparatus, some personal responsibility should be put on him to continue the work in his own time. 1951F. Charlesworth Chiropodial Orthopædics viii. 132 Progressive remedial exercises, Faradism and other form[s] of physiotherapy are a necessary adjunct to the treatment. 1974Times 11 Jan. 15/1 This will be discussed..at a meeting with the Councils of the Association of Occupational Therapists, the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy and the Society of Remedial Gymnasts. 1975Arnheim & Sinclair Clumsy Child vi. 50/2 The most effective remedial program for the clumsy individual is one founded on the principles of psychomotor development.
Hence reˈmedially adv.
1796Burke Regic. Peace i. (1892) 83 It is, preventively, the assertor of its own rights, or remedially, their avenger. 1840Arnold in Stanley Life (1844) II. ix. 175 Before any⁓thing is ventured remedially. 1875E. White Life in Christ v. xxxi. (1878) 534 It is God acting, no longer according to the course of law,..but remedially above law. |