sanative
Americanadjective
adjective
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Etymology
Origin of sanative
1400–50; < Medieval Latin sānātīvus ( see sanatory, -ive); replacing late Middle English sanatif < Middle French < Medieval Latin, as above
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Aurora laughed and reinforced her expression of jolly matter-of-factness, looking into his eyes with eyes of sanative fun.
From Aurora the Magnificent by Gertrude Hall Brownell
An enquiry having been made into the nature, preparation, and manner of using the sanative tea, there only remains to conclude this Second Part of the Essay with the consideration of its EFFECTS.
From A Treatise on Foreign Teas Abstracted From An Ingenious Work, Lately Published, Entitled An Essay On the Nerves by Hugh Smith
"And you don't think two years' prison, two years' slavery, was sanative enough without the denial of his just compensation?"
From Imaginary Interviews by William Dean Howells
We apprehend it will then be hard work to convince the intelligent and thinking part of the community that poisons and the lancet are sanative agents.
From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by George Dadd
Then human duties, lowly though they may be, have their sanative and salutary influence on our whole frame of being.
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by John Lyde Wilson
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