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sanative

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san·a·tive  (sn-tv)
adj.
Having the power to cure; healing or restorative: a sanative environment of mountains and fresh air.
[Middle English sanatif, from Old French, from Late Latin sntvus, from Latin sntus, past participle of snre, to heal; see sanatorium.]
sanative [ˈsænətɪv]
adj
(Medicine) a less common word for curative
[from Medieval Latin sānātīvus, from Latin sānāre to heal, from sānus healthy]
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Adj.1.sanative - tending to cure or restore to healthsanative - tending to cure or restore to health; "curative powers of herbal remedies"; "her gentle healing hand"; "remedial surgery"; "a sanative environment of mountains and fresh air"; "a therapeutic agent"; "therapeutic diets"
alterative, curative, healing, therapeutic, remedial
healthful - conducive to good health of body or mind; "a healthful climate"; "a healthful environment"; "healthful nutrition"; "healthful sleep"; "Dickens's relatively healthful exuberance"
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The sanative effect of the strong vibration was exhausted, and with the last words the poor man fell again, rigid and insensible.
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I am very glad of that experience of Italian literature, which I look back upon as altogether wholesome and sanative, after my excesses of Heine.
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