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Webster 1913 Edition


Sanatory

San′a-to-ry

,
Adj.
[LL.
sanatorius
, fr. L.
sanare
to heal. See
Sanable
.]
Conducive to health; tending to cure; healing; curative; sanative.
Sanatory
ordinances for the protection of public health, such as quarantine, fever hospitals, draining, etc.
De Quincey.
Sanatory and sanitary should not be confounded. Sanatory signifies conducive to health, while sanitary has the more general meaning of pertaining to health.

Definition 2024


sanatory

sanatory

English

Adjective

sanatory (comparative more sanatory, superlative most sanatory)

  1. producing health; healing or curative
    Sanatory ordinances for the protection of public health, such as quarantine, fever hospitals, draining, etc. De Quincey.

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