单词 | curative |
释义 | curativeadj.n. A. adj. 1. Of or relating to curing or healing. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > art or science of medicine > [adjective] medicinala1387 curative?a1425 physic?a1425 physical?a1425 medicinablec1475 Aesculapian1604 medical1646 physico-medical1677 sanative1695 medic1700 iatrical1816 iatric1851 sanatory1870 med1933 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 52v (MED) Þof al forsoþ þer beþ a craft curatyue [?c1425 Paris crafte of helynge] of þo þingez þat ar made of fortune neþerlez þer is not a crafte preseruatif. 1541 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) iii. vii. f. 60v All other thinges concernynge this mattere, partayn to the part curatiue, whiche treateth of healynge of sycknes. 1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia 147 The conveyance and application of that curative vertue. 1800 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 3 395 Those who have practised the Curative Art in that City. 1967 Canad. Med. Assoc. Jrnl. 29 July 256/1 Radiotherapy alone has proved its curative value in a variety of cancers. 2009 Asia Pacific Jrnl. Public Health 21 85 This fee is intended to cover preventive, promotive, curative, and also rehabilitation services. 2. a. That cures or heals. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > [adjective] medicinala1384 wholesomea1387 healinga1398 medicinablea1398 restorativea1398 sanative14.. curatory?a1425 remediable1437 mildlya1475 curable1483 recurablea1500 curative1525 eradicative1543 good1580 physical1580 medicable1590 sanable1598 balsamic1605 therapeutical1606 medicinary1607 medicative1644 medical1646 therapeutic1646 salutary1649 salvative1653 boethetic1656 medicamentary1656 recuperatory1656 sanitating1656 medicamental1657 medicamentous1659 medicating1705 balmy1747 salving1751 sanatorya1832 salubrious1855 medicatory1864 recuperative1872 1525 R. Whitford tr. St. Augustine Rule vi. sig. C.iijv Yf there be no certente whether that thynge that the seke parsone doeth coueyte or desyre: be expedyment & curatyue or medycynable for the dysase [L. sanando illi dolori], let counsell be axed of the physycyon. 1705 F. Fuller Medicina Gymnastica 5 Consideration of it only as it may prove Curative, not as Palliative. 1865 D. Livingstone & C. Livingstone Narr. Exped. Zambesi ii. 60 This sleeping is curative of what may be incipient sunstroke. 1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 9 Feb. 123/3 Some poultry-keepers prefer to use no preventive drugs and to rely upon curative drugs, if and when an outbreak of coccidiosis occurs. 2009 New Scientist 17 Jan. 3/2 If it works as well in humans as it has in mice, it should enable patients to produce floods of potentially curative stem cells in their own bone marrow. b. figurative. Remedial, corrective. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > amending > [adjective] remediousa1450 amendablea1500 amending1551 reparative1582 corrigible1602 corrective1603 remediate1608 remedial1612 amendful1639 reparatory1648 curative1658 relevant1676 correcting1692 correctory1758 redeeming1827 rectificatory1851 rectificative1863 1658 T. Case Eliah's Abatem. 26 Corruption is curative to Corruption. 1686 A. Horneck Crucified Jesus xix. 542 All afflictions and judgments of this life are curative. 1786 I. Crouch Serm. on Eternity of Future Punishments 10 The torments of hell are there spoken of, not as curative or expiatory, but as penal. 1880 C. H. Pearson in Victorian Rev. (Melbourne) Feb. 538 Men..ask whether the plébiscite is to be curative or preventive. 1934 Michigan Law Rev. 34 548 Fixing prices..is a curative measure designed to mitigate as far as possible the unfortunate results of unbridled competition. 2009 N.Y. Mag. 18 May 63/2 There's something about a global financial meltdown that calls for a curative blast of palette-cleansing noise. B. n. A curative agent or treatment; a remedy. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > [noun] > a cure or remedy leechcraftc888 leechdoma900 bootOE helpc1000 pigment?a1200 remedya1382 medicinea1393 application?a1425 sanativec1440 healer?1523 recovery1576 curative1577 mithridate1587 cure1623 presidy1657 therapeutic1842 therapeutical1845 1577 J. Woolton Castell of Christians vii. sig. L.iijv In tyme of Pestilence, let vs call on God, and vse preseruatiues and curatiues. 1664 Meth. Chem. Philos. & Physick iii. xxv. 214 Let him use appropriated curatives prepared Spagirically about the magnitude of a bean. 1857 D. E. E. Braman Information about Texas i. 15 I place great confidence in the frequent outward use of cold water, as a preventive and curative. 1919 Pennsylvania Gaz. 14 Nov. 181/1 The development of our knowledge of antitoxins, their use both as preventives and as curatives has also been a factor of great aid in checking the spread of certain diseases. 2011 Independent 27 July 5/2 The makers of Resolve, Disprin, tomato juice and other well-known curatives [of hangovers] may have received a modest boost. Derivatives ˈcuratively adv. in order to effect a cure; as or in the manner of a cure; (also) remedially, correctively. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > [adverb] medicinallya1398 wholesomelya1398 physiclike1581 curatively1685 healingly1864 therapeutically1875 1685 W. Salmon Polygraphice (ed. 5) vii. vi. 651 Curatively, give it [sc. Tinctura Bezoartica nostra] when, and as often as the exigence requires. 1862 E. Balme et al. Observ. on Treatm. Convicts in Ireland 125 It has shown itself to be curatively deterrent and reformatory. 2002 R. Porter Blood & Guts iv. 98 Curatively, gene therapy may prove a way to eradicate faulty genes. ˈcurativeness n. now somewhat rare the property of being curative; (also) the degree to which a treatment is curative.Recorded earliest in self-curativeness; cf. self-cure n. at self- prefix 6. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > [noun] > healing quality virtuec1300 medicinableness1660 sanativenessa1661 curativeness1822 1822 ‘J. Weathercock’ in London Mag. May 468/1 Apply your organs of self-curativeness to this extremely perspicuous line of reasoning. 1850 C. H. Meeker tr. ‘J. H. Rausse’ Errors Pract. Water-cure i. 14 The curativeness [Ger. Heilsamkeit] of water and the injuriousness of plaster and salve, in cases of boils and eruptions, has been already proved on physiological grounds. 1878 M. Arnold in Fortnightly Rev. 1 July 26 They are conscious not of their vain disfigurements of the Christian religion, but of its genuine curativeness. 1950 Arch. Neurol. & Psychiatry 64 910 It might be asked why there is no mention of the curativeness of psychotherapy properly administered in narcolepsy? 1994 J. K. Moreno in A. Fuhriman & G. M. Burlingame Handbk. Group Psychotherapy xii. 445 Hobbs et al...found patients and therapists differed in their perceptions of curativeness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.?a1425 |
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