alterative - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'alterative' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Alterative

[ a.]

- Causing ateration.
- Gradually changing, or tending to change, a morbid state of the functions into one of health.

2 . Alterative

[ n.]

- A medicine or treatment which gradually induces a change, and restores healthy functions without sensible evacuations.

1 . alterative

[ s]

Meaning (1):
- tending to cure or restore to health

Example in sentence:

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