regurgitativeadj.

1791 W. Taplin Gentleman's Stable Directory 307 Its increased strength will, by its additional stimulus upon and persevering irritation of the finer vessels, excite their regurgitative contribution to the general evacuation.

1850 Lancet 26 Oct. 486/2 In the cases of obstructive disease of the aortic valves, there was regurgitative disease of the mitral valve.

1905 Auk 22 55 The three cases cited..are unhesitatingly accepted by all scientists as examples of regurgitative feeding [of nestlings].

1935 Amer. Jrnl. Surg. 30 371/1 Vomiting begins soon after birth and usually recurs with each feeding. It is described as forcible or regurgitative.

2000 M. Cox & S. Mays Human Osteol. xiv. 232 In the clinical literature it [sc. dental erosion] is associated with regurgitative conditions such as the eating disorders, gastrointestinal disorders and alcoholism.

1926 Peabody Jrnl. Educ. 3 311 He would have taken the regurgitative type of examination, in which he would have returned his knowledge of the useless and irrelevant facts which he had..placed in mental cold storage.

1951 Jrnl. Higher Educ. 22 94/2 A test of the regurgitative power of the students in repeating preconceived and set material.

1984 Times 5 Apr. 11/1 This is a regurgitative little book reflecting in its somewhat repetitive and occasionally purple prose style that feverish excitement the media has in its own affairs.

2004 Politics Oct. 80/1 A new group of singer-songwriters has emerged who, subsumed by this regurgitative culture, are sacrificing themselves to cover versions.