restorative

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English

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Etymology

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From Middle English restoratif, restoratyve, from Old French restoratif, restauratif and Medieval Latin restaurātīvus.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ɹɪˈstɒɹətɪv/
  • Hyphenation: re‧stora‧tive

Adjective

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restorative (comparative more restorative, superlative most restorative)

  1. 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[ohn] 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

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restorative (plural restoratives)

  1. 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.
  2. (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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  • OED2

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