refective

noun

1. That which refreshes.

   “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.”

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

   “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.”

adj

1. (obsolete)Refreshing; restoring.

   “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.”

   “But, under the present proprietor—an intelligent, educated German—while its ostensible business was retailing of spirits and other material of a refective nature, the ulterior and sub rosa purpose of its existence was as headquarters and rallying point for the more educated, radical agitators of the day.”

2. (obsolete)Nutritional; full of vitamins.

   “Raw potato starch, for instance, has a high refective power, while rice, wheat and rye starches are reported to have little or none.”

   “In fact we (Kon, 1935; Kon, Kon and Mattick, 1938) found no spectacular difference in the bacteriological picture of the caecal contents or of the faeces when rats thriving on a refective diet were compared in this respect with rats declining on a vitamin B deficient diet or on the refective diet after its refective properties had been destroyed by gelatinizing the starch .”

   “Three groups of refected rats were gven, respectively, the refective diet , the cooked refective diet , and the refective diet with succinylsulphathiazole.”