Sekirov Dictionary

refective

adjective 2
noun 2
forms 3

adjective2

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(no longer used) Refreshing; restoring.
- Some six or eight hours after repeat the said sudorifick, and thereupon the Refective Cordial. — 1673
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(no longer used) Nutritional; full of vitamins.
- Raw potato starch, for instance, has a high refective power, while rice, wheat and rye starches are reported to have little or none. — 1939

noun2

A type of animal that eats its food twice, by reconsuming partially digested matter.
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That which refreshes.
- His auditors gaine so refreshed him, as to take away the sense of all paine in teaching. Their profit was his refectives and reparatives. — 1633

forms

refectives · more refective · most refective

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