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 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 WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [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}, {therapeutic}]
2: relating to or involved in therapy; "therapeutic approach to
criminality" [syn: {therapeutic}, {therapeutical}]
n 1: a medicine or therapy that cures disease or relieve pain
[syn: {remedy}, {curative}, {cure}, {therapeutic}]
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