sanative, a. and n.
(ˈsænətɪv)
Also 5 sanatyf, (sanetyf).
[a. OF. sanatif or med.L. sānātīvus, f. L. sānāre: see sanate v. and -ive.]
A. adj.
1. Having the power to heal; conducive to or promoting health; curative, healing.
| 14.. Stockh. Med. MS. ii. 912 in Anglia XVIII. 329 To woundys it is confortyf With oþer erbys sanatyf. 1497 Bp. Alcock Mons Perfect. A ij, Herbes and floures sanatyf to remedy all syknesses. 1508 Dunbar Tua Mariit Wemen 8 The sauar sanatiue of the sueit flouris. 1562 W. Bullein Bulwark, Bk. Simples (1579) 59 b, Gum Sarcocoll..is a sanatyue gum to incarnat woundes and sores. 1626 Bacon Sylva §787 Brass hath, in it selfe, a Sanative vertue;..But Iron is Corrosive, and not Sanative. 1655 Fuller Ch. Hist. ii. vi. §33 That..Kings should receive that peculiar Priviledge, and sanative Power, whereof daily Instances are presented unto us. 1704 Norris Ideal World ii. ii. 91, I speak not of their medicinal operations, those alterative or sanative effects which they have upon our bodies. 1742 Fielding Jos. Andrews i. xv, A sanative soporiferous draught. 1826 Southey Vind. Eccl. Angl. 166 Handkerchiefs used to be inserted..to touch the place whereon the body had first been laid, and derive a sanative influence. 1885 Manch. Exam. 18 Feb. 3/2 The special treatment which has been proved serviceable and sanative by practical hydropathists. 1892 Stevenson Across the Plains iii. 108 The place was sanative; the air, the light, the perfumes..concord in happy harmony. |
b. fig., esp. Promoting moral or spiritual health.
| a 1548 Hall Chron., Hen. VII 4 Vsing the same for a remedy & medicine of their peine, addyng euer somwhat therto that was sanatyue & wholsome. 1674 Boyle Excell. Theol. i. iii. 91 The mysteries themselves, being duly considered, have had a very sanative influence on many that contemplated them. 1816 Coleridge Statesm. Man. App. D. (1852) 109 A sort of sanative counter-excitement, that holds in check the more dangerous disease of Methodism. 1831 Carlyle Sart. Res. ii. iii, Imposture is of sanative, anodyne nature. 1859 Masson Brit. Novelists iv. 289 The sanative virtue of action..to dispel doubt and despair. |
2. Of, pertaining to or concerned with healing.
| 1695 J. Edwards Perfect. Script. III. 180 How congruously do the Musical and Sanative Art meet together? 1822–34 Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) II. 146 The absorption of the fluid being the first step in the sanative process. 1883 Brit. Q. Rev. Oct. 397 The sanative process by which despair is transformed..into triumphant faith. |
† B. n. A remedy. Obs.
| c 1440 Pol. Rel. & L. Poems 248 Other [healing] Erbys ther ben alsoo..‘Operys satisfaccio’ [ys] the souereyne sauetyff [? read sanetyff]. 1678 Lively Orac. viii. §3 As if he that had an ulcer in his bowels, should apply all his balsoms and sanatives only to his head. |
Hence † ˈsanativeness, healing quality.
| a 1661 Fuller Worthies, Huntingdon. (1662) ii. 48 An obscure Village..called Haile weston whose very name Soundeth something of sanativeness therein. |