Therapeutic

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Therapeutic \Ther`a*peu"tic\, n.
     One of the Therapeutae.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Therapeutic \Ther`a*peu"tic\, Therapeutical \Ther`a*peu"tic*al\,
     a. [F. th['e]rapeutique, Gr. ?, from ? attendant, servant, ?
     to serve, take care of, treat medically, ? attendant,
     servant.] (Med.)
     Of or pertaining to the healing art; concerned in discovering
     and applying remedies for diseases; curative. "Therapeutic or
     curative physic." --Sir T. Browne.
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           Medicine is justly distributed into "prophylactic," or
           the art of preserving health, and therapeutic, or the
           art of restoring it.                     --I. Watts.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  therapeutic
       adj 1: 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"
              [syn: {curative}, {healing(p)}, {alterative}, {remedial},
               {sanative}]
       2: relating to or involved in therapy; "therapeutic approach to
          criminality" [syn: {therapeutical}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  30 Moby Thesaurus words for "therapeutic":
     adjuvant, aidful, alterative, analeptic, beneficial, conducive,
     constructive, contributory, corrective, curative, furthersome,
     good for, healing, healthy, helpful, iatric, medical, medicative,
     medicinal, positive, profitable, remedial, restorative, salubrious,
     salutary, sanative, sanatory, serviceable, theriac, useful