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reparative, a. and n.|rɪˈpærətɪv|
[See prec. and -ative.]
A. adj.
1. Capable of effecting, or tending to effect, repair; relating to repair.
Common in recent use, esp. with power or process.
1656Artif. Handsom. 60 These and the like reparative Inventions, by which art and ingenuity studies to help and repair the defects..which God..is pleased to inflict. 1768[W. Donaldson] Life Sir B. Sapskull I. ix. 99 The barber-surgeons (who in a reparative sense are face painters). 1835–6Todd's Cycl. Anat. I. 448/1 There is scarcely an example..that did not exhibit a considerable display of reparative energy. 1854Owen Skel. & Teeth in Orr's Circ. Sc., Organ. Nat. I. 287 The portions..are soon replaced by the active reparative power of these highly vascular bodies. 1878T. Bryant Pract. Surg. I. 10 What influence the nerves of the part have upon the reparative process we do not know.
2. Pertaining to the making of amends, or to the remedying of some wrong.
a1695Kettlewell (J.), Suits are unlawfully entered, when they are vindictive, not reparative. 1795tr. Mercier's Fragm. Pol. & Hist. II. 12 In all these reparative wars..the triumphant party has invariably justice on its side. 1875Poste Gaius ii. §79 It is no bar to a reparative personal action against the thief. 1889Times 31 Aug. 5/1 Having by reparative acts remedied the most pressing evils.
†B. n. That which repairs; a reparation.
a1639Wotton Life Dk. Buckhm. in Reliq. (1651) 112 Whereupon new preparatives were in hand, and partly reparatives of the former beaten at sea. |