A Topical Dictionary: Search for therapeutic

Dictionary Results For "therapeutic" [?]/[OPML]

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English

Etymology

From {{term|sc=Grek|θεραπευτικoς|θεραπευτικός|tr=therapeftikos|attentive, helpful, obliging, curative}} from {{term|sc=Grek|θεραπεια|θεραπεία|tr=therapeia|therapy}}.

Pronunciation

Adjective

Of, or relating to therapy
Having healing powers; curative, remedial

Category:Greek derivations

fr:therapeutic io:therapeutic ja:therapeutic pl:therapeutic ru:therapeutic ta:therapeutic te:therapeutic vi:therapeutic tr:therapeutic

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Therapeutic \Ther`a*peu"tic\, n.
One of the Therapeutae.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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.
[1913 Webster]

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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WordNet 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]

Moby Dictionary
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