therapeutic

& s. [Fr. thérapeutique, from Lat, therapeutic a ( ars ) = (the art) of healing, from Greek therapeutikos, from the rape utes =a servant.] [THE RAPE UTE.] A. As adj .: Pertaining to the healing art; curative; concerned in discovering and applying remedies for diseases. "Therapeutick or curative physick, we term that which restoreth the patient unto sanity, and taketh away diseases actually affecting."- Browne : Vulgar Errors , bk. iv., ch. xiii. *B. As subst.: One of the Jewish sect called Ther apeutæ (q.v.).