Refective
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Refective is a noun meaning That which refreshes.
Meaning
That which refreshes.
More Meanings
- A type of animal that eats its food twice, by reconsuming partially digested matter.
- (obsolete) Refreshing; restoring.
- (obsolete) Nutritional; full of vitamins.
Example Sentences
Some six or eight hours after repeat the said sudorifick, and thereupon the Refective Cordial.
Raw potato starch, for instance, has a high refective power, while rice, wheat and rye starches are reported to have little or none.
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?
Word Forms
- refectives
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include refreshing, refreshant, refreshedness, regale, tonic, enlivener.
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