sanatory

American  

[san-uh-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee] / ˈsæn əˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i /

adjective

1. favorable for health; curative; healing.

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Etymology

Origin of sanatory

1825–35; < Late Latin sānātōrius healthful, equivalent to Latin sānā ( re ) to heal (derivative of sānus sane ) + -tōrius -tory ¹

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Example Sentences

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sanatory

The board is thus furnished with a sanatory report from one officer, and a report upon circumstances from the other.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847 by Various

A sanatory line of troops, stationed on our frontier to preserve France from the contagion of the yellow-fever which had broken out in Catalonia, soon grew into an army of observation.

From Memoirs To Illustrate The History Of My Time Volume 1 by John William Cole

That the system of sanatory measures, adopted in Russia, did not any where stop the disease.

From Letters on the Cholera Morbus. Containing ample evidence that this disease, under whatever name known, cannot be transmitted from the persons of those labouring under it to other individuals, by contact—through the medium of inanimate substances—or through the medium of the atmosphere; and that all restrictions, by cordons and quarantine regulations, are, as far as regards this disease, not merely useless, but highly injurious to the community. by J. (James) Gillkrest

It is suggested by Samuel12 that under given circumstances the fever may be sanatory.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

It would be an inquiry of some interest, now that the care of the public health is becoming a department of the state, with what sanatory measures these becoming solemnities were attended.

From The Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Volume 02: Augustus by Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus

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