medicative

[med-i-key-tiv]

adjective

1. medicinal.

Other Word Forms

• antimedicative adjective
• nonmedicative adjective
• unmedicative adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of medicative¹

From the Medieval Latin word medicātīvus, dating back to 1635–45. See medicate, -ive

Example Sentences

The effort of Nature, exerting her medicative force to cast out foreign impediments, and once more become One, become whole?

From Project Gutenberg

Adjective expresses ideas, simple, abstract, general and medicative; it is an abstraction in the substantive.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• corrective 
• healthful 
• invigorating 
• medicinal 
• remedial 
• salutary 
• therapeutic