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In some senses, recreative is marked as obsolete, rare. Watch for register when choosing this word.
recreative
adj 2noun 1
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4ADJ.
social
VERB + RECREATIVE
contrast
PREP.
in
ADV.
purely
Definitions
adj
1
Being, or pertaining to, recreation.
Between the two extremes of college men the unsocial dig and the flunking swell, lies the majority, who, acknowledging the duty and merit of hard work, see the value in social and recreative line, but are at somewhat of a loss, seemingly, how to proportionize the time given to the different sides of college life, or how far to allow themselves to go on the more attractive side.
Tribute acts, by contrast, are purely recreative.
2
Creating anew.
recreative power
noun
1
A recreative thing or activity.
For, theſe are onely Cynthias recreatiues / Made vnto Phœbus, and are feminine; […]
And in this kinde I knovv fevv recreatiues that poſſeſſe vs more, then the humour of building, in reſpectthey both ſatisfie our ovvne preſent inuention, and ſerue to our poſteritie, as perpetuall remembrances, and memorials of their progenitors, […]
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Between the two extremes of college men the unsocial dig and the flunking swell, lies the majority, who, acknowledging the duty and merit of hard work, see the value in social and recreative line, but
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Tribute acts, by contrast, are purely recreative.
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recreative power
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For, theſe are onely Cynthias recreatiues / Made vnto Phœbus, and are feminine; […]
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And in this kinde I knovv fevv recreatiues that poſſeſſe vs more, then the humour of building, in reſpectthey both ſatisfie our ovvne preſent inuention, and ſerue to our poſteritie, as perpetuall reme
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Among the most delightful of mental recreatives may be classed the exhilarating pleasures of intellectual intercourse; they constitute the very life-fluid of our social being.
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