Definition of Medicative

1. Adjective. Having the properties of medicine. "Medicinal properties"

Exact synonyms: Medicinal
Similar to: Healthful
Derivative terms: Medicate, Medicate, Medicine

Definition of Medicative

1. a. Medicinal; acting like a medicine.

Definition of Medicative

1. Adjective. Medicinal; acting like a medicine. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Medical Definition of Medicative

1. Medicinal; acting like a medicine. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Medicative

medicare part b
medicare payment
medicares
medicarpin
medicaster
medicasters
medicate
medicated
medicates
medicating
medication
medication errors
medication systems
medicational
medications
medicative (current term)
medicator
medicean
medicephalic
medicians
medicide
medicides
medicin
medicinable
medicinable finger
medicinal
medicinal charcoal
medicinal chemistry
medicinal drug
medicinal eruption

Literary usage of Medicative

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Psychic treatment of nervous disorders: (The Psychoneuroses and Their by Paul Dubois (1909)
"Medicine—medicative Therapeutics, Physiotherapy — Constant Intervention of Psychotherapy : Iti Necessity in the Struggle Against the Psychoneuroses—The ..."

2. Elements of therapeutics and practice according to the dosimetric system by A. J. d' Oliveira Castro (1888)
"As well might we say that there is a medicative force in time, ... The medicative force is therefore a myth—an expression which has no meaning, further than ..."

3. The Laryngoscope by American Laryngological, Rhinological, and Otological Society (1908)
"1902. The thyroid gland is subject to nearly all forms of benign and malignant neoplasms. The treatment is classified as: i. medicative. 2. Operative. ..."

4. Transactions of the Annual Meeting by Ohio State Medical Society (1902)
"The thyroid gland was subject to nearly all forms of benign and malignant neoplasms. Their treatment he classified as: 1. medicative. 2. Operative. ..."

5. The World of Matter and the Spirit of Man: Latest Discourses of Religion by Theodore Parker (1907)
"... grass which grows between the equinoctial and the arctic line, there is a substance whence a fiery liquor can be made, of wondrous medicative power. ..."

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