reparative

1. (rare) That which repairs.Examples: "[…] the Dukes fame did still remain more and more in obliquie among the masse of people, whose judgements are only reconciled with good successes, so as he saw plainly that he must abroad again to rectifie with his best endeavour under the publike service, his own reputation; Whereupon new preparatives were in hand, and partly reparatives of the former beaten at Sea:"; "1891, Newark and Its Leading Businessmen, Newark, New Jersey: Mercantile Publishing Company, John Sanders, Practical Plumber, p. 80, It is better to lay out a little more money on a good job of plumbing at the start, than to be obliged to continually lay out money for reparatives on a poor job."rare