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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. tending or intended to rectify or improve;
- Example: "a remedial reading course"
- Example: "remedial education"

2. tending to cure or restore to health;
- Example: "curative powers of herbal remedies"
- Example: "her gentle healing hand"
- Example: "remedial surgery"
- Example: "a sanative environment of mountains and fresh air"
- Example: "a therapeutic agent"
- Example: "therapeutic diets"
[syn: curative, healing(p), alterative, remedial, sanative, therapeutic]



The 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.
   [1913 Webster]

         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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

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]


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




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.