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Answer for the clue "Having curing powers ", 8 letters:
sanative

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Word definitions for sanative in dictionaries

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. That cures or restores; curative or restorative

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sanative \San"a*tive\, a. [LL. sanativus.] Having the power to cure or heal; healing; tending to heal; sanatory. -- San"a*tive*ness , n.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. 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) , ...

Usage examples of sanative.

These pellets combine the pure, concentrated, active principles of several vegetable alteratives, and the result is, that within the small compass of a few grains he has most happily blended and chemically condensed these properties so that their action upon the ANIMAL ECONOMY is sanative and universal.

You will find it as difficult to inculcate these sanative precepts on the sensualities of the present day, as to convince an Athanasian that there is but one God.