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English

Etymology

Adjective

curative; providing a remedy
intended to correct or improve deficient skills in some subject

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Norwegian:

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Remedial \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.
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Statutes are declaratory or remedial. --Blackstone.
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It is an evil not compensated by any beneficial result;
it is not remedial, not conservative. --I. Taylor.
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WordNet remedial
adj 1: tending or intended to rectify or improve; "a remedial
reading course"; "remedial education"
2: 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, sanative, therapeutic]

Moby Dictionary
adjuvant , aidful , alleviating , alleviative , alterative , analeptic ,
analgesic , anesthetic , anodyne , assuasive , balmy , balsamic ,
beneficial , benumbing , cathartic , cleansing , conducive ,
constructive , contributory , corrective , curative , curing ,
deadening , demulcent , dulling , easing , emollient , furthersome ,
good for , healing , helpful , iatric , lenitive , medicative ,
medicinal , mitigating , mitigative , numbing , pain-killing ,
palliative , positive , profitable , purgative , relieving , reparative ,
reparatory , restitutive , restitutory , restorative , salutary ,
sanative , sanatory , serviceable , softening , soothing , subduing ,
therapeutic , theriac , useful , vulnerary , wholesome

REMEDIAL. That which affords a remedy; as, a remedial statute, or one which is made to supply some defects or abridge some superfluities of the common law. 1 131. Com. 86. The term remedial statute is also applied to those acts which give a new remedy. Esp. Pen. Act. 1.