Medicinal
[mɪ'dɪsɪn(ə)l] or [mɪ'dɪsənəl]
Definition
(a.) Having curative or palliative properties; used for the cure or alleviation of bodily disorders; as, medicinal tinctures, plants, or springs.
(a.) Of or pertaining to medicine; medical.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. Healing, curative, medical.
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Examples
- Dittany is an herb of rare medicinal power, which is found in Crete, and also in Melnos. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- I followed my aunt with a modest medicinal peace-offering, in the shape of a bottle of salts. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- For example, the one thousand species of plants of which he makes mention a re considered from the medicinal or from the economic point of view. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- The same result has followed from keeping together different varieties of the medicinal leech. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
- No medicinal aid seemed possible. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The oil, which is extracted from the liver, is of great medicinal value, and contributes considerably to the high economic value of the cod. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He is a great fellow, said Fred, to whom these cheerful truths had a medicinal taste, and no trouble to anybody. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Theophrastus considered the medicinal uses of minerals a s well as of plants. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- It was a medicinal project upon his niece's understanding, which he must consider as at present diseased. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Dr. Beddoes had established what he styled a Pneumatic Institution at Clifton, the object of which was to try the medicinal effects of different gases on consumptive patients. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- O, for some medicinal vial to purge unwholesome nature, and bring back the earth to its accustomed health! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- He had gardens made for the growing of medicinal herbs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The legal, the medicinal, the religious. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
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