Repletive
adj ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Tending to make replete; filling.
"Tea and coffee, with sugar and milk, are very repletive beverages taken with wholesome food, and any child of five years old, and a common share of common sense, would laugh at the idea of smoke and snuff, and tea and coffee being put in the same category."
- 2 Restorative; serving to replenish.
"And his fulness is not only repletive, but diffusive; a fulness of plenty and abundance, but of bounty also and redundance."
- 3 Ubiquitious; everywhere; unbounded by physical constraints.
"This repletive existence is now attributed also to the body of Christ."
- 4 Causing blood to flow to (a body part)
"This pig died from extreme exhaustion of all the repletive functions."
- 5 Associated with oiliness and characterized by fullness or excess, such as with inflammation, swelling; mucus production, puss, etc. Chinese, traditional
"The realm of therapeutics divides in the cosmic duality of the unctuous or repletive and the dry or depletive."
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- 6 Pertaining to a phase of infilling.
"Indeed, on some burgages at the west and east ends there has been repletive development since the First World War."
- 7 Implying or anticipating the subject which comes after the verb, as in "There is a house over there."
"The real problems come from the other two uses of er—its repletive and pronominal uses."
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More examples"Tea and coffee, with sugar and milk, are very repletive beverages taken with wholesome food, and any child of five years old, and a common share of common sense, would laugh at the idea of smoke and snuff, and tea and coffee being put in the same category."
Etymology
Compare French réplétif.
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