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adj. - Having the properties of something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease

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Usage examples (4)
  • That said, tales of psychological woe and emotional duress I could read ceaselessly, even rapaciously, with medicative effect.
  • Very impossible to cure with anything less than medicative intervention – and even that will probably fail for most of them.
  • The effort of Nature, exerting her medicative force to cast-out foreign impediments, and once more become One, become whole?
  • To let out the rich medicative nard. '
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