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tending to cure disease or restore health
- even in Roman times the hot mineral springs of Bath, England, were believed to possess medicinal properties
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beneficial to the health of body or mind
- if gin and tonic is the medicinal potion that he claims, then he's done a lot of self-medication of late
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medicinal
nounSynonyms of medicinal (Entry 2 of 2)
a substance or preparation used to treat disease
- the discovery that the plant is a potent medicinal once it has been refined
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“Medicinal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/medicinal. Accessed 21 Jan. 2022.
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The first known use of medicinal was in the 14th century
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