refective
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
That which refreshes.
Example Sentences
- "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?"
- "There is a cool and pleasant refective exceedingly agreeable in social parties, large or small, at all seasons of the year, and especially so in the hot weather of our long dry summers."
- "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."
- "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."