refective
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -ɛktɪv
Noun
[edit]refective (plural refectives)
- That which refreshes.
- 1633, Daniel Dyke, Two Treaties:
- His auditors gaine so refreshed him, as to take away the sense of all paine in teaching. Their profit was his refectives and reparatives.
- 1809, Lewis Stuckley, A Gospel Glass, page 272:
- 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?
- 1995, Anne Cooper Funderburg, Chocolate, Strawberry, and Vanilla: A History of American Ice Cream, page 33:
- 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.
- A type of animal that eats its food twice, by reconsuming partially digested matter.
- 2007, Robert J. Hutchinson, Politically Incorrect Guide to the Bible:
- 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.
Adjective
[edit]refective (comparative more refective, superlative most refective)
- (obsolete) Refreshing; restoring.
- 1673, Gideon Harvey, A Discourse of the Plague, page 151:
- Some six or eight hours after repeat the said sudorifick, and thereupon the Refective Cordial.
- 1889 November, “Delta Chi–Wabash College”, in The Sigma Chi Quarterly, volume 9, number 1, page 51:
- 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.
- 1894, Flora Helm ·, Between Two Forces: A Record of a Theory and a Passion, page 86:
- 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.
- (obsolete) Nutritional; full of vitamins.
- 1939, The Vitamins, page 210:
- Raw potato starch, for instance, has a high refective power, while rice, wheat and rye starches are reported to have little or none.
- 1945, Proceedings of the Nutrition Society- Volume 3, page 221:
- In fact we (Kon, 1935; Kon, Kon and Mattick, 1938) found no spectacular difference in the bacteriological picture of the caecal contents or of the faeces when rats thriving on a refective diet were compared in this respect with rats declining on a vitamin B deficient diet or on the refective diet after its refective properties had been destroyed by gelatinizing the starch .
- 1949, University of Reading. National Institute for Research in Dairying, Shinfield, Report, page 101:
- Three groups of refected rats were gven, respectively, the refective diet , the cooked refective diet , and the refective diet with succinylsulphathiazole.