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Remedial definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

REME'DIAL, a. [L. remedialis.] Affording a remedy; intended for a remedy, or for the removal of an evil.
The remedial part of law is so necessary a consequence of the declaratory and directory, that laws without it must be very vague and imperfect. Statutes are declaratory of remedial.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

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, alterative, remedial, sanative, therapeutic]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1651 1. intended as a remedy 2. concerned with the correction of faulty study habits and the raising of a pupil's general competence <remedial reading courses>; also receiving or requiring remedial instruction <remedial students> • remedially adverb

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. 1 affording or intended as a remedy (remedial therapy). 2 (of teaching) for slow or backward children. Derivatives: remedially adv. Etymology: LL remedialis f. L remedium (as REMEDY)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

1. Remedial education is intended to improve a person's ability to read, write, or do mathematics, especially when they find these things difficult. ...children who required special remedial education... ADJ: usu ADJ n 2. Remedial activities are intended to improve a person's health when they are ill. (FORMAL) He is already walking normally and doing remedial exercises. ADJ: usu ADJ n 3. Remedial action is intended to correct something that has been done wrong or that has not been successful. (FORMAL) Some authorities are now having to take remedial action. ADJ: usu ADJ n

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Curing, healing, sanatory, sanative, corrective.

Moby Thesaurus

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