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therapeutick

therapeutick is the obsolete form of therapeutic.

Meaning of therapeutic

Adjective

therapeutic (comparative more therapeutic, superlative most therapeutic)

  1. Of, or relating to therapy.
    • “We have been working on nanomachines over the past decade,” Joseph Wang, chairman of nanoengineering at UCSD, said. “One of the challenges we considered is to deliver therapeutic cargo deep.2016 February 1, Tom Whipple, “Microcannon firing nanobullets: the future of targeted medicine”, in The Times
  2. Having a positive effect on the body or mind.
    • Medicine is justly distributed into prophylactic, or the art of preserving health, and therapeutic, or the art of restoring it.1725, Isaac Watts, Logick: Or, The Right Use of Reason in the Enquiry after Truth, […], 2nd edition, London: […] John Clark and Richard Hett, […], Emanuel Matthews, […], and Richard Ford, […]...

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Forms of therapeutick

comparativemore therapeutick
superlativemost therapeutick

Questions about therapeutick

What is therapeutick the obsolete form of?
Therapeutick is the obsolete form of therapeutic.

Words near therapeutick in the dictionary

  1. therapeuticals
  2. therapeuticize
  3. therapeuticized
  4. therapeuticizes
  5. therapeuticizing
  6. therapeutick
  7. therapeutics
  8. therapeutism
  9. therapeutist
  10. therapeutists
  11. therapeutize

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Adapted from Wiktionary: therapeutick (page history and authors); therapeutic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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