Both Uses
efficacious
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The Magic Mountain
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- He had set forth the theory that, at least as far as his institution was concerned, the summer cure was to be recommended no less than the winter, that it was especially efficacious, indeed absolutely indispensable.†
Chpt 3.4 *efficacious = effective in producing an intended effect
- Efficacious social reforms would have deprived the latter of the most important means of justification, and the former of their sanctified state.†
Chpt 6.6
Definitions:
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(1)
(efficacious) effective in producing an intended effect
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)