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sanatory |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Sanatory \San"a*to*ry\, a. [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. Note: Sanatory and sanitary should not be confounded. Sanatory signifies conducive to health, while sanitary has the more general meaning of pertaining to health.
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