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発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈɒl.tɹə.tɪv/, /ˈɒl.tə.ɹə.tɪv/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈɔl.tɚˌaɪ.tɪv/, /ˈɔl.tɚ.ə.tɪv/

名詞

alterative (複数形 alteratives)

1. (medicine, now historical) A medicine or treatment which works by changing processes within the body, rather than by evacuating something etc. [from 14th c.]
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970, partition II, section 5, member 1, subsection v:

     Amongst this number of cordials and alteratives I do not find a more present remedy than a cup of wine or strong drink, if it be soberly and opportunely used.

形容詞

alterative (comparative more alterative, superlative most alterative)

1. Causing alteration.
   1. (medicine) Gradually changing, or tending to change, a morbid state into a healthy one. [from 15th c.]