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[SAN-ah-tiv] 
1. having the power to cure or restore to health; healing: "I need to take a step back from my daily grind, and withdraw for a few days to a natural, sanative environment, to express my hurt and try to make sense of it all."
Origin:
Approximately 1450; from Middle English 'sanatif'; from Old French; from Late Latin, 'sanativus'; from Latin, 'sanatus,' past participle of 'sanare': to heal, from 'sanus': healthy or sane. In Action:
"Joseph was now ready to sit down to a loin of mutton, and waited for Mr. Adams, when he and the doctor came in. The doctor, having felt his pulse and examined his wounds, declared him much better, which he imputed to that sanative soporiferous draught, a medicine 'whose virtues,' he said, 'were never to be sufficiently extolled.' And great indeed they must be, if Joseph was so much indebted to them as the doctor imagined; since nothing more than those effluvia which escaped the cork could have contributed to his recovery; for the medicine had stood untouched in the window ever since its arrival."
Henry Fielding. "Joseph Andrews."
"The land is the appointed remedy for whatever is false and fantastic in our culture. The continent we inhabit is to be physic and food for our mind, as well as our body. The land, with its tranquilizing, sanative influences, is to repair the errors of a scholastic and traditional education, and bring us to just relations with men and things."
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882), U.S. essayist, poet, philosopher. "The Young American," Nature, Addresses, and Lectures (1849). | |
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