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efficacious

/ˌɛf.əˈkeɪ.ʃəs/ adjective C2
  1. Effective; possessing efficacy. (formal) · This medicine is efficacious.
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“I fancy that he had taken steps to make that draught efficacious, and that he quite relied upon your being unconscious.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 99 · B2
He has but one fault, he is somewhat wilful; but really, on referring for the moment to what he said, do you truly believe that Mithridates used these precautions, and that these precautions were efficacious?”
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 522 · C1

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