sanative
Example Sentences
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Sleep, in short, if not a "matchless" sanative, is at least a universal one.
From Forty Years in the Wilderness of Pills and Powders Cogitations and Confessions of an Aged Physician by William A. (William Andrus) Alcott
After the great revulsion from the excesses of the French Revolution, she was with him a continually sanative influence.
From Recollections of a Tour Made in Scotland A.D. 1803 by John Campbell Shairp
Hence the reader will perceive that our aim is to depart from the popular debilitating and life-destroying practice, and approach as near as possible to the sanative.
From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by George Dadd
Let him eschew such hyper-erudite monstrosities—let him stick to the 'recital' of sane and sanative music, and he will attain a reputation above all contemporary musical mono-facturers—and what is more, deserve it.'
From Franz Liszt by James Huneker
Friction and sometimes Touch, how sanative, by several Examples, 12.
From Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World by Henry Oldenburg
