different between remedy vs revertent
remedy
English
Etymology
From Middle English remedie, from Old French *remedie, remede, from Latin remedium (“a remedy, cure”), from re- (“again”) + mederi (“to heal”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???m?di/
- Hyphenation: rem?e?dy
Noun
remedy (plural remedies)
- Something that corrects or counteracts.
- (law) The legal means to recover a right or to prevent or obtain redress for a wrong.
- A medicine, application, or treatment that relieves or cures a disease.
- 1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
- He said to himself that no doubt they would save her; the doctors would discover some remedy surely. He remembered all the miraculous cures he had been told about. Then she appeared to him dead. She was there; before his eyes, lying on her back in the middle of the road. He reined up, and the hallucination disappeared.
- 1856: Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Part III Chapter X, translated by Eleanor Marx-Aveling
- The accepted tolerance or deviation in fineness or weight in the production of gold coins etc.
Synonyms
- (Scottish contexts): remeid
Derived terms
- home remedy
- remediless
Translations
Verb
remedy (third-person singular simple present remedies, present participle remedying, simple past and past participle remedied)
- (transitive) To provide or serve as a remedy for.
- 1748. David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 27.
- Nor is geometry, when taken into the assistance of natural philosophy, ever able to remedy this defect,
- 1748. David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 27.
Synonyms
- redress
- help
- correct
- cure
- See also Thesaurus:repair
Translations
Related terms
- remediable
- remedial
Further reading
- remedy in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- remedy in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- remedy at OneLook Dictionary Search
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revertent
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???v??(?)t?nt/
Noun
revertent (plural revertents)
- (medicine, obsolete) A remedy which restores the natural order of the inverted irritative motions in the animal system.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of E. Darwin to this entry?)
French
Pronunciation
- Homophones: reverte, revertes
Verb
revertent
- third-person plural present indicative of reverter
- third-person plural present subjunctive of reverter
Latin
Verb
revertent
- third-person plural future active indicative of revert?
revertent From the web:
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- what does the word reverent mean
- definition reverent
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