remedial

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remedial - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
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           Statutes are declaratory or remedial.    --Blackstone.
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           It is an evil not compensated by any beneficial result;
           it is not remedial, not conservative.    --I. Taylor.
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remedial - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  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, remedial,
         sanative, therapeutic]

remedial - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  REMEDIAL. That which affords a remedy; as, a remedial statute, or one which 
  is made to supply some defects or abridge some superfluities of the common 
  law. 1 131. Com. 86. The term remedial statute is also applied to those acts 
  which give a new remedy. Esp. Pen. Act. 1. 
  
  

remedial - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  61 Moby Thesaurus words for "remedial":
     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