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curative, a. (n.)|ˈkjʊərətɪv|
[a. F. curatif, -ive (15th c.), f. L. cūrāt-, ppl. stem of cūrāre to cure: see -ive.]
I.
1. Of or pertaining to the curing of disease or the healing of wounds.
1533Elyot Cast. Helthe (1541) 60 b, The part curatiue, whiche treateth of healynge of sycknes. 1541R. Copland Galyen's Terap. 2 H iij, Alway the curatyfe indicacions are correspondent to y⊇ nombre of y⊇ affections and dyseases. 1671Salmon Syn. Med. iii. xiii. 349 The Curative part of Medicine. 1800Med. Jrnl. III. 395 Those who have practised the Curative Art in that City. 1878C. Stanford Symb. Christ viii. 206 Christ's curative miracles.
2. a. Having the tendency or power to cure disease; promoting cure.
1644Bulwer Chirol. 147 The conveyance and application of that curative vertue. 1704F. Fuller Med. Gymn. (1711) 4 Consideration of it only as it may prove Curative, not as Palliative. 1865Livingstone Zambesi ii. 60 This sleeping is curative of what may be incipient sunstroke. 1881J. Simon in Nature No. 616. 370 Curative medicine.
b. fig. Remedial, corrective.
1661Origen's Opin. in Phenix (1721) I. 82 All Punishment is curative. 1686A. Horneck Crucif. Jesus xix. 542 All afflictions and judgments of this life are curative. 1880C. H. Pearson in Victorian Rev. 2 Feb. 538 Men..ask whether the plébiscite is to be curative or preventive.
II. as n. A remedial medicine or agent.
1857D. E. E. Braman Inform. Texas i. 15, I place great confidence in the frequent outward use of cold water, as a preventive and curative.
Hence ˈcuratively adv.; ˈcurativeness.
1862in Pall Mall G. 13 Jan. (1885) 4/2 It has shown itself to be curatively deterrent and reformatory. 1875Contemp. Rev. XXV. 303 An element of genuine curativeness. 1879M. Arnold Irish Cathol. Mixed Ess. 115 Conscious not of their vain disfigurements of the Christian religion, but of its genuine curativeness. |