refective

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.

You should have refreshed our bowels, been as cordials, and sweet refectives, after all our wearisome labours: but have not you dealt unkindly with us?

A type of animal that eats its food twice, by reconsuming partially digested matter.

While the rabbits mentioned in Leviticus 11 appear to chew the cud, we now know that they are not, in fact, ruminants but technically "refectives" - that is , they chew their droppings to better digest their food, not cud like a cow.

Refreshing; restoring.

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.

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.

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 .