Meaning of REMEDIAL
| Pronunciation: | | ree'meedeeul
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- [adj] tending or intended to rectify or improve; "a remedial reading course"; "remedial education"
- [adj] 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"
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| | Synonyms: | | alterative, bettering, curative, healing(p), healthful, sanative, therapeutic |
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| | Definition: | | \Re*me"di*al\ (-al), a. [L. remedialis.]
Affording a remedy; intended for a remedy, or for the removal
or abatement of an evil; as, remedial treatment.
Statutes are declaratory or remedial. --Blackstone.
It is an evil not compensated by any beneficial result;
it is not remedial, not conservative. --I. Taylor.
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