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Alterative   Listen
noun
Alterative  n.  A medicine or treatment which gradually induces a change, and restores healthy functions without sensible evacuations.





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"Alterative" Quotes from Famous Books



... and the nature of evidence, and the different kinds of evidence, and so on. For my part I have had a suspicion since I have been here, that a touch of this kind of thing might improve English preaching; as, also, I do think that sermons of the kind I have described would be useful, by way of alterative, among us. If I could have but one of the two manners, I should prefer our own, because I think that this habit of preaching is one of the strongest educational forces that forms ...
— Sunny Memories Of Foreign Lands, Volume 1 (of 2) • Harriet Elizabeth (Beecher) Stowe


Words linked to "Alterative" :   healthful, healing, curative, remedial


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