Definition of "alleviative" []

• Reducing pain or severity; palliative: alleviative treatment for an incurable disease. (adjective)

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• "Also they had been promised a solution of the noise mystery and was not that in itself sufficient alleviative?"
• "When the most powerful alleviative known to medical science has bestowed the last Judas kiss which is necessary to emasculate its victim, and, sure of the prey, substitutes stabbing for blandishment, what alleviative, stronger than the strongest, shall soothe such doom?"
• "I request that if he has brought any form of opium with him he will give it to me, and we enter into a stipulation that he will come to me for any opiate or other alleviative which he may desire."