Alterative Sentence Examples

In fact, the alterative faculty has now been discovered as well, although about this also has not written a word.

No surgeon would think of operating on such a case until iodides had been freely administered and, by failing to cure, had proved the disease to be non-syphilitic. Another instance of this deobstruent power - "alterative," it was formerly termed - is seen in the case of chronic lead poisoning.

Install and use alterative energy sources, such as wind turbines, solar panels, and geothermal heat pumps, to reduce your household's reliance on non-renewable sources of energy.

He also claims that this contract, which he is still bound to, is preventing him from seeking alterative employment.

They proved that, though Italy came late into the realm of literature, her action was destined to be decisive and alterative by the introduction of a new spirit, a firmer and more positive grasp on life and art.

Sarsaparilla still has a popular reputation as an "alterative," but it has been examined and tested in every manner known to modern medical science, and is professionally regarded as "pharmacologically inert and therapeutically useless."

It is thus vaguely called an alterative, since the patient recovers under its use.