sanative
Americanadjective
adjective
Other Word Forms
- nonsanative adjective
Etymology
Origin of sanative
1400–50; < Medieval Latin sānātīvus ( see sanatory, -ive); replacing late Middle English sanatif < Middle French < Medieval Latin, as above
Example Sentences
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Hence we must aid the vital power to maintain her empire and resist the encroachments on her sanative operations by the use of antiseptics and stimulants.
From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by Dadd, George
And there is, too, a sanative quality in that feeling.
From The Galaxy, April, 1877 Vol. XXIII.—April, 1877.—No. 4. by Various
Friction and sometimes Touch, how sanative, by several Examples, 12.
From Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World by Oldenburg, Henry
Sleep, in short, if not a "matchless" sanative, is at least a universal one.
From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)
He believed primarily in a sanative effluence, and his method seems to have been a combination of passes, suggestion, and a supposed "metallotherapy" or "magneto-therapy"—the celebrated baquet—which no doubt was merely a form of suggestion.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
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