therapeuticaladj.n.
/θɛrəˈpjuːtɪkəl/ a. = therapeutic adj. 1. (In first quot. 1606 absol.)
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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
1606 S. Daniel Queenes Arcadia iii. ii. sig. F2 We must now Descend vnto the Therapheuticall [printed Theraphenticall].
1640 E. Chilmead tr. J. Ferrand Ερωτομανια xxxvii. 336 This Remedy..should rather be Prophylacticall, for Prevention of the disease, then Therapeuticall, for the Cure of it.
1657 W. Coles Adam in Eden cviii. 153 It is not only Therapeuticall, or restorative, but Prophylacticall or preventionall.
1702 R. Neve Apopiroscopy Prolegomenon sig. b6 Fifthly, Therapeutical, Treating of the Cure of Diseases.
1843 R. J. Graves Syst. Clin. Med. Introd. Lect. 21 Observation of the progress of symptoms and the effects of therapeutical agents.
1950 G. B. Shaw Farfetched Fables Pref. 90 Such a public department should be manned not by chemists analyzing the advertized wares and determining their therapeutical value, but by mathematicians criticizing their statistical pretentions.
1952 E. Hobsbawm in Granta 15 Nov. 12/1 We did not take to politics for therapeutical or aesthetic reasons.
b. n. A therapeutic substance, a medicine.
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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
1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Travellers in Spain II. xiii. 967 Mineral therapeuticals still remain a..dead letter.
Derivatives
theraˈpeutically adv. in a therapeutic manner; in relation to therapeutics.
ΘΚΠ
the world > health and disease > healing > [adverb]
medicinallya1398
wholesomelya1398
physiclike1581
curatively1685
healingly1864
therapeutically1875
1875 H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics (1879) 97 Dr. Leand affirms that the oxide of manganese is therapeutically equivalent to the preparations of bismuth excepting in that it does not constipate.
1885 G. H. Taylor Pelvic & Hernic Therapeut. 28 The local parts are by no means independent, therapeutically, as local therapeutics seem to imply.
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