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sanative, a. and n.|ˈsænətɪv|
Also 5 sanatyf, (sanetyf).
[a. OF. sanatif or med.L. sānātīvus, f. L. sānāre: see sanate v. and -ive.]
A. adj.
1. Having the power to heal; conducive to or promoting health; curative, healing.
14..Stockh. Med. MS. ii. 912 in Anglia XVIII. 329 To woundys it is confortyf With oþer erbys sanatyf. 1497Bp. Alcock Mons Perfect. A ij, Herbes and floures sanatyf to remedy all syknesses. 1508Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen 8 The sauar sanatiue of the sueit flouris. 1562W. Bullein Bulwark, Bk. Simples (1579) 59 b, Gum Sarcocoll..is a sanatyue gum to incarnat woundes and sores. 1626Bacon Sylva §787 Brass hath, in it selfe, a Sanative vertue;..But Iron is Corrosive, and not Sanative. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. ii. vi. §33 That..Kings should receive that peculiar Priviledge, and sanative Power, whereof daily Instances are presented unto us. 1704Norris Ideal World ii. ii. 91, I speak not of their medicinal operations, those alterative or sanative effects which they have upon our bodies. 1742Fielding Jos. Andrews i. xv, A sanative soporiferous draught. 1826Southey Vind. Eccl. Angl. 166 Handkerchiefs used to be inserted..to touch the place whereon the body had first been laid, and derive a sanative influence. 1885Manch. Exam. 18 Feb. 3/2 The special treatment which has been proved serviceable and sanative by practical hydropathists. 1892Stevenson Across the Plains iii. 108 The place was sanative; the air, the light, the perfumes..concord in happy harmony.
b. fig., esp. Promoting moral or spiritual health.
a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VII 4 Vsing the same for a remedy & medicine of their peine, addyng euer somwhat therto that was sanatyue & wholsome. 1674Boyle Excell. Theol. i. iii. 91 The mysteries themselves, being duly considered, have had a very sanative influence on many that contemplated them. 1816Coleridge Statesm. Man. App. D. (1852) 109 A sort of sanative counter-excitement, that holds in check the more dangerous disease of Methodism. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. ii. iii, Imposture is of sanative, anodyne nature. 1859Masson Brit. Novelists iv. 289 The sanative virtue of action..to dispel doubt and despair.
2. Of, pertaining to or concerned with healing.
1695J. Edwards Perfect. Script. III. 180 How congruously do the Musical and Sanative Art meet together? 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) II. 146 The absorption of the fluid being the first step in the sanative process. 1883Brit. Q. Rev. Oct. 397 The sanative process by which despair is transformed..into triumphant faith.
†B. n. A remedy. Obs.
c1440Pol. Rel. & L. Poems 248 Other [healing] Erbys ther ben alsoo..‘Operys satisfaccio’ [ys] the souereyne sauetyff [? read sanetyff]. 1678Lively Orac. viii. §3 As if he that had an ulcer in his bowels, should apply all his balsoms and sanatives only to his head.
Hence † ˈsanativeness, healing quality.
a1661Fuller Worthies, Huntingdon. (1662) ii. 48 An obscure Village..called Haile weston whose very name Soundeth something of sanativeness therein. |