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Additive   /ˈædətɪv/  /ˈædɪtɪv/   Listen
Additive

adjective
1.
Designating or involving an equation whose terms are of the first degree.  Synonym: linear.
2.
Characterized or produced by addition.
noun
1.
Something added to enhance food or gasoline or paint or medicine.



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... quinine, in a period greatly troubled by malaria, can be explained. Cinchona, discovered in Spanish America and known in seventeenth-century Europe, had demonstrable effects in the treatment of malaria but, because it was an additive rather than a purgative, physicians rejected it on theoretical grounds. Its eventual acceptance later revolutionized drug therapeutics, but this revolution did not affect ...
— Medicine in Virginia, 1607-1699 • Thomas P. Hughes


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