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English
Etymology
From Latin salūtifer (“healthy, health-giving”) + -ous.
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Adjective
salutiferous (comparative more salutiferous, superlative most salutiferous)
- (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.
- Conducive to safety or salvation.
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