Hypertext Webster Gateway: "remedial"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
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.
Statutes are declaratory or remedial. --Blackstone.
It is an evil not compensated by any beneficial result;
it is not remedial, not conservative. --I. Taylor.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
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}]
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