restorative
English
Etymology
From Middle English restoratif, restoratyve, from Old French restoratif, restauratif and Medieval Latin restaurātīvus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɹɪˈstɒɹətɪv/
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- Hyphenation: re‧stora‧tive
Adjective
restorative
- Serving to restore.
- After a long day working in the fields Clarence took comfort in a restorative pint of beer.
- 1671, John Milton, “The Second Book”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC:
- Destroys life's enemy, / Hunger, with sweet restorative delight.
- 2019, Bridget Sweet, Thinking Outside the Voice Box, page 71:
- Again, voice change is not easy and vulnerability plays a big part, but if choral teachers and adolescent singers approach it with the right mindframe, the experience can be empowering, enlightening, and restorative for all involved.
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Noun
restorative (plural restoratives)
- Something with restoring properties.
- 1811, Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility, Chapter 25:
- Marianne’s joy was almost a degree beyond happiness, so great was the perturbation of her spirits and her impatience to be gone. Her unwillingness to quit her mother was her only restorative to calmness; and at the moment of parting her grief on that score was excessive.
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- (euphemistic) An alcoholic drink, especially with tonic.
- 1960, P[elham] G[renville] Wodehouse, chapter XIV, in Jeeves in the Offing, London: Herbert Jenkins, →OCLC:
- “Well, let's hope you're right, darling. In the meantime,” said Kipper, “if I don't get that whisky-and-soda soon, I shall disintegrate. Would you mind if I went in search of it, Mrs Travers?” “It's the very thing I was about to suggest myself. Dash along and drink your fill, my unhappy young stag at eve.” “I'm feeling rather like a restorative, too,” said Bobbie. “Me also,” I said, swept along on the tide of the popular movement. “Though I would advise,” I said, when we were outside, “making it port. More authority.”
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