Meaning of refective | Babel Free

Definitions

1. That which refreshes.
2. A type of animal that eats its food twice, by reconsuming partially digested matter.

Examples

“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.”

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