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remedial

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Word definitions for remedial in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 curative; providing a remedy 2 intended to correct or improve deficient skills in some subject

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN action ▪ His control in these cases is such that he alone decides whether or not to sample, whether or not to demand remedial action . ▪ Pressure is already developing, especially in the unions, for remedial action ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1650s, "curing, relieving, affording a remedy," from Late Latin remedialis "healing, curing," from Latin remedium (see remedy (n.)). Educational sense of "concerned with improving skills" is first recorded 1924.

Usage examples of remedial.

Such aliment would have been not only highly nutritious, but it would also have acted as an efficient remedial agent for the removal of the scorbutic condition.

In the following lines examples of idiosyncrasy to the most common remedial substances will be cited, taking the drugs up alphabetically.

Great pains are taken to obtain the materials at the right season of the year, properly cured so that none of their remedial qualities may be impaired.

In the third book other remedial measures, dietetic, manipulative, and even operative, are suggested.

Court to dismiss its fears of upsetting the balance in the distribution of powers under the Federal System and to enlarge its own supervisory powers over state legislation were the appeals more and more addressed to it for adequate protection of property rights against the remedial social legislation which the States were increasingly enacting in the wake of industrial expansion.

In consideration, therefore, of the foregoing facts, we deem it most profitable for our readers that Part Fourth of this volume should be arranged in the following manner: The milder forms of uncomplicated, acute diseases, which may be readily and unmistakably recognized, and successfully managed without professional aid, will receive that attention which is necessary to give the reader a correct idea of them, and their proper remedial treatment.

ERECTED 1974, and my roommate left notes accusing me of stealing his puka shell necklace or remedial English book.

North Carolina where the low brick buildings were marked with plaques reading ERECTED 1974, and my roommate left notes accusing me of stealing his puka shell necklace or remedial English book.

He tapped into his earth-sense, interlinked with its tapestry, then aligned his remedial ciphers overtop of the flaw in the ward ring.

They themselves say that the duration of life, too, has increased, and is still on the increase, since their discovery of the invigorating and medicinal properties of vril, applied for remedial purposes.

After a thorough cleansing of the vaginal surfaces of mucus, by means of the warm or hot water, it is sometimes advisable to inject remedial fluids.

It has not been our purpose to literally explain, in detail, the methods of applying vibratory motion in the treatment of paralysis for popular experiment, since to be successful one should become an expert, not only in this mechanical treatment, but also in the diagnosis of the various forms of paralysis, as well as familiar with their causes, pathology, and remedial requirements.

Treatment intended to be remedial is therefore very often misdirected and fails to afford relief, positive injury frequently resulting instead.

As this remedial appliance will be frequently recommended in the pages following, its mode of application is here described.

I suggest that other guards at Sargasso Dump be given a chance for similar remedial programs.