refective
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (obsolete) Refreshing; restoring.Examples: "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."obsolete
2. (obsolete) Nutritional; full of vitamins.Examples: "Raw potato starch, for instance, has a high refective power, while rice, wheat and rye starches are reported to have little or none."; "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 ."; "Three groups of refected rats were gven, respectively, the refective diet , the cooked refective diet , and the refective diet with succinylsulphathiazole."obsolete
Definition source: Wiktionary