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Webster 1913 Edition


Remedial

Re-me′di-al

(-al)
,
Adj.
[L.
remedialis
.]
Affording a remedy; intended for a remedy, or for the removal or abatement of an evil;
as,
remedial
treatment
.
Statutes are declaratory or
remedial
.
Blackstone.
It is an evil not compensated by any beneficial result; it is not
remedial
, not conservative.
I. Taylor.

Webster 1828 Edition


Remedial

REME'DIAL

,
Adj.
[L. remedialis.] Affording a remedy; intended for a remedy, or for the removal of an evil.
The remedial part of law is so necessary a consequence of the declaratory and directory, that laws without it must be very vague and imperfect. Statutes are declaratory of remedial.

Definition 2024


remedial

remedial

English

Adjective

remedial (comparative more remedial, superlative most remedial)

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

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