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单词 curative
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curativeadj.n.

Brit. /ˈkjʊərətɪv/, /ˈkjɔːrətɪv/, U.S. /ˈkjʊrədɪv/
Forms: late Middle English curatyf, late Middle English–1500s curatyue, late Middle English–1600s curatiue, 1500s curatyfe, 1600s– curative.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French curatif; Latin curativus.
Etymology: < (i) Middle French, French curatif, adjective (1314 in Old French), and its etymon (ii) post-classical Latin curativus (from 13th cent. in British and continental sources) < classical Latin cūrāt- , past participial stem of cūrāre cure v.1 + -ivus -ive suffix.With use as noun compare post-classical Latin curativa, feminine (from 13th cent. in British and continental sources).
A. adj.
1. Of or relating to curing or healing.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > healing > art or science of medicine > [adjective]
medicinala1387
curative?a1425
physic?a1425
physical?a1425
medicinablec1475
Aesculapian1604
medical1646
physico-medical1677
sanative1695
medic1700
iatrical1816
iatric1851
sanatory1870
med1933
?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 52v (MED) Þof al forsoþ þer beþ a craft curatyue [?c1425 Paris crafte of helynge] of þo þingez þat ar made of fortune neþerlez þer is not a crafte preseruatif.
1541 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) iii. vii. f. 60v All other thinges concernynge this mattere, partayn to the part curatiue, whiche treateth of healynge of sycknes.
1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia 147 The conveyance and application of that curative vertue.
1800 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 3 395 Those who have practised the Curative Art in that City.
1967 Canad. Med. Assoc. Jrnl. 29 July 256/1 Radiotherapy alone has proved its curative value in a variety of cancers.
2009 Asia Pacific Jrnl. Public Health 21 85 This fee is intended to cover preventive, promotive, curative, and also rehabilitation services.
2.
a. That cures or heals.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > healing > [adjective]
medicinala1384
wholesomea1387
healinga1398
medicinablea1398
restorativea1398
sanative14..
curatory?a1425
remediable1437
mildlya1475
curable1483
recurablea1500
curative1525
eradicative1543
good1580
physical1580
medicable1590
sanable1598
balsamic1605
therapeutical1606
medicinary1607
medicative1644
medical1646
therapeutic1646
salutary1649
salvative1653
boethetic1656
medicamentary1656
recuperatory1656
sanitating1656
medicamental1657
medicamentous1659
medicating1705
balmy1747
salving1751
sanatorya1832
salubrious1855
medicatory1864
recuperative1872
1525 R. Whitford tr. St. Augustine Rule vi. sig. C.iijv Yf there be no certente whether that thynge that the seke parsone doeth coueyte or desyre: be expedyment & curatyue or medycynable for the dysase [L. sanando illi dolori], let counsell be axed of the physycyon.
1705 F. Fuller Medicina Gymnastica 5 Consideration of it only as it may prove Curative, not as Palliative.
1865 D. Livingstone & C. Livingstone Narr. Exped. Zambesi ii. 60 This sleeping is curative of what may be incipient sunstroke.
1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 9 Feb. 123/3 Some poultry-keepers prefer to use no preventive drugs and to rely upon curative drugs, if and when an outbreak of coccidiosis occurs.
2009 New Scientist 17 Jan. 3/2 If it works as well in humans as it has in mice, it should enable patients to produce floods of potentially curative stem cells in their own bone marrow.
b. figurative. Remedial, corrective.
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the world > action or operation > amending > [adjective]
remediousa1450
amendablea1500
amending1551
reparative1582
corrigible1602
corrective1603
remediate1608
remedial1612
amendful1639
reparatory1648
curative1658
relevant1676
correcting1692
correctory1758
redeeming1827
rectificatory1851
rectificative1863
1658 T. Case Eliah's Abatem. 26 Corruption is curative to Corruption.
1686 A. Horneck Crucified Jesus xix. 542 All afflictions and judgments of this life are curative.
1786 I. Crouch Serm. on Eternity of Future Punishments 10 The torments of hell are there spoken of, not as curative or expiatory, but as penal.
1880 C. H. Pearson in Victorian Rev. (Melbourne) Feb. 538 Men..ask whether the plébiscite is to be curative or preventive.
1934 Michigan Law Rev. 34 548 Fixing prices..is a curative measure designed to mitigate as far as possible the unfortunate results of unbridled competition.
2009 N.Y. Mag. 18 May 63/2 There's something about a global financial meltdown that calls for a curative blast of palette-cleansing noise.
B. n.
A curative agent or treatment; a remedy.
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the world > health and disease > healing > [noun] > a cure or remedy
leechcraftc888
leechdoma900
bootOE
helpc1000
pigment?a1200
remedya1382
medicinea1393
application?a1425
sanativec1440
healer?1523
recovery1576
curative1577
mithridate1587
cure1623
presidy1657
therapeutic1842
therapeutical1845
1577 J. Woolton Castell of Christians vii. sig. L.iijv In tyme of Pestilence, let vs call on God, and vse preseruatiues and curatiues.
1664 Meth. Chem. Philos. & Physick iii. xxv. 214 Let him use appropriated curatives prepared Spagirically about the magnitude of a bean.
1857 D. E. E. Braman Information about Texas i. 15 I place great confidence in the frequent outward use of cold water, as a preventive and curative.
1919 Pennsylvania Gaz. 14 Nov. 181/1 The development of our knowledge of antitoxins, their use both as preventives and as curatives has also been a factor of great aid in checking the spread of certain diseases.
2011 Independent 27 July 5/2 The makers of Resolve, Disprin, tomato juice and other well-known curatives [of hangovers] may have received a modest boost.

Derivatives

ˈcuratively adv. in order to effect a cure; as or in the manner of a cure; (also) remedially, correctively.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > healing > [adverb]
medicinallya1398
wholesomelya1398
physiclike1581
curatively1685
healingly1864
therapeutically1875
1685 W. Salmon Polygraphice (ed. 5) vii. vi. 651 Curatively, give it [sc. Tinctura Bezoartica nostra] when, and as often as the exigence requires.
1862 E. Balme et al. Observ. on Treatm. Convicts in Ireland 125 It has shown itself to be curatively deterrent and reformatory.
2002 R. Porter Blood & Guts iv. 98 Curatively, gene therapy may prove a way to eradicate faulty genes.
ˈcurativeness n. now somewhat rare the property of being curative; (also) the degree to which a treatment is curative.Recorded earliest in self-curativeness; cf. self-cure n. at self- prefix 6.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > healing > [noun] > healing quality
virtuec1300
medicinableness1660
sanativenessa1661
curativeness1822
1822 ‘J. Weathercock’ in London Mag. May 468/1 Apply your organs of self-curativeness to this extremely perspicuous line of reasoning.
1850 C. H. Meeker tr. ‘J. H. Rausse’ Errors Pract. Water-cure i. 14 The curativeness [Ger. Heilsamkeit] of water and the injuriousness of plaster and salve, in cases of boils and eruptions, has been already proved on physiological grounds.
1878 M. Arnold in Fortnightly Rev. 1 July 26 They are conscious not of their vain disfigurements of the Christian religion, but of its genuine curativeness.
1950 Arch. Neurol. & Psychiatry 64 910 It might be asked why there is no mention of the curativeness of psychotherapy properly administered in narcolepsy?
1994 J. K. Moreno in A. Fuhriman & G. M. Burlingame Handbk. Group Psychotherapy xii. 445 Hobbs et al...found patients and therapists differed in their perceptions of curativeness.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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