Meaning

That which refreshes..

Definitions by Sense

1. That which refreshes.
2. A type of animal that eats its food twice, by reconsuming partially digested matter.
3. (obsolete) Refreshing; restoring.
4. (obsolete) Nutritional; full of vitamins.

Example Sentences

His auditors gaine so refreshed him, as to take away the sense of all paine in teaching. Their profit was his refectives and reparatives.

You should have refreshed our bowels, been as cordials, and sweet refectives, after all our wearisome labours: but have not you dealt unkindly with us?

There is a cool and pleasant refective exceedingly agreeable in social parties, large or small, at all seasons of the year, and especially so in the hot weather of our long dry summers.

While the rabbits mentioned in Leviticus 11 appear to chew the cud, we now know that they are not, in fact, ruminants but technically "refectives" - that is , they chew their droppings to better digest their food, not cud like a cow.

Some six or eight hours after repeat the said sudorifick, and thereupon the Refective Cordial.

The initiation was followed by a very refective banquet , after which Delta Chi and Lambda took the train for their respective homes, voting Xi a chapter that knew how to entertain.

But, under the present proprietor—an intelligent, educated German—while its ostensible business was retailing of spirits and other material of a refective nature, the ulterior and sub rosa purpose of its existence was as headquarters and rallying point for the more educated, radical agitators of the day.

Raw potato starch, for instance, has a high refective power, while rice, wheat and rye starches are reported to have little or none.

Word Forms

• refectives
• more refective
• most refective

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Use refective when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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