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.

 

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