Meaning of repletive | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Tending to make replete; filling.
2. Restorative; serving to replenish.
3. Ubiquitious; everywhere; unbounded by physical constraints.
4. Causing blood to flow to (a body part)
5. Associated with oiliness and characterized by fullness or excess, such as with inflammation, swelling; mucus production, puss, etc.
   Chinese, traditional
6. Pertaining to a phase of infilling.
7. Implying or anticipating the subject which comes after the verb, as in "There is a house over there."

Examples

“Tea and coffee, with sugar and milk, are very repletive beverages taken with wholesome food, and any child of five years old, and a common share of common sense, would laugh at the idea of smoke and snuff, and tea and coffee being put in the same category.”

“In the mean-term control, these repletive effects of ingested materials influence the amount eaten or drunk (in 24 h, for example) by determining the meal or draught frequency (Le Magnen & Tallon 1963, 1966 , Le Magnen 1971 ).”

“The repletive effect of various foods, related to either their respective caloric density or their specific properties as nutriments, acts as a reinforcer in a "conditioning" of palatability.”

“And his fulness is not only repletive, but diffusive; a fulness of plenty and abundance, but of bounty also and redundance.”

“It shows clearly that the only true mode of obtaining thorough ventilation is by the exhaust system or pumping the air out, under some circumstances combined with the repletive system of forcing the air in .”

“Such, however, is the insistency that penny postage can not long be delayed and will come, and under such circumstances the postal authorities would do well to cast about for repletive revenue.”

“The forest is the only repletive natural resource that we have — all others are extractive .”

“This repletive existence is now attributed also to the body of Christ.”

“Christ is also present in the Supper by virtue of his "repletive presence.””

“This could be the structural framework which explains Brenz's sharply distinguished – if not diastatic – notion between the circumscriptive and the repletive sphere.”

“Finally, there is "repletive ubeity ", which Leibniz assigns to God, and who “operates immediately on all created things, continually producing them, whereas finite minds cannot immediately influence or operate upon them".”

“This pig died from extreme exhaustion of all the repletive functions.”

“Active movements are always repletive to the working muscles and, if large groups of muscles are worked, they are depletive to other parts of the body.”

“The exercises should not be too strongly repletive to the pelvis, because such produce too violent a depletion of the head.”

“The realm of therapeutics divides in the cosmic duality of the unctuous or repletive and the dry or depletive.”

“Also [inversely], if among a great number of repletive symptoms suddenly signs of depletion manifest themselves, these latter will require the most urgent attention, even if depletion is limited to one or two spots only.”

“Indeed, on some burgages at the west and east ends there has been repletive development since the First World War.”

“[…] better structures facing the main street, an example of what has been identified as the burgage cycle, a phenomenon wherein "the repletive and saturation or climax phases of the cycle transform the land behind the houses forming the street fronts into a dangerous, rat-infested slum."”

“He traced the transformation of the street as a three-phase development cycle: an institutive phase (1827-53), during which regular urban blocks were founded on both sides of the street; a repletive phase (ca. 1860-1937), during which the original regular urban blocks were slowly developed and filled; and finally a recessive phase (1960s-73), which saw the demolition of old buildings, and was followed by a fallow period.”

“The real problems come from the other two uses of er—its repletive and pronominal uses.”

“' Finally, repletive elements are also frequently employed in impersonal passives.”

“The distinction between the following couplets is identical in both Afrikaans and English with the forms with repletive daar, or 'there' sounding more usual:”

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