salutiferous

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Etymology

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From Latin salūtifer (healthy, health-giving) +‎ -ous.

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Adjective

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salutiferous (comparative more salutiferous, superlative most salutiferous)

  1. (now rare) Conducive to good health; healthy.
    • 1678, R[alph] Cudworth, The True Intellectual System of the Universe: The First Part; wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted; and Its Impossibility Demonstrated, London: [] Richard Royston, [], →OCLC:
      innumerable auxiliatory powers, all of them salutiferous
    • 1791, James Boswell, Life of Johnson, Oxford, published 2008, page 421:
      [W]hen warm water is impregnated with salutiferous substances, it may produce great effects as a bath.
  2. Conducive to safety or salvation.

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