Meaning of Recreative | Babel Free

Definitions

A recreative thing or activity.

obsolete, rare

Equivalents

Examples

“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, […]”

“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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