Definitions for: Remedial

[adj] tending or intended to rectify or improve; "a remedial reading course"; "remedial education"
[adj] tending to cure or restore to health; "curative powers of herbal remedies"; "her gentle healing hand"; "remedial surgery"; "a sanative environment of mountains and fresh air"; "a therapeutic agent"; "therapeutic diets"

Webster (1913) Definition: Re*me"di*al (-al), a. [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.

Synonyms: alterative, bettering, curative, healing(p), healthful, sanative, therapeutic

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