medicative
Americanadjective
Other Word Forms
- antimedicative adjective
- nonmedicative adjective
- unmedicative adjective
Etymology
Origin of medicative
From the Medieval Latin word medicātīvus, dating back to 1635–45. See medicate, -ive
Example Sentences
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Millions of dollars are spent yearly by the public for dentifrices which have only the cleansing value of soap and water, no medicative value whatever.
From Time Magazine Archive
The effort of Nature, exerting her medicative force to cast out foreign impediments, and once more become One, become whole?
From A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time by Rhys, Ernest
Adjective expresses ideas, simple, abstract, general and medicative; it is an abstraction in the substantive.
From Delsarte System of Oratory by Various
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