reparativeadj.n.

Brit.

/rᵻˈparətɪv/,

/ˈrɛp(ə)rətɪv/, U.S.

/rəˈpɛrədɪv/,

/riˈpɛrədɪv/

Forms: 1500s reparatiue, 1600s– reparative.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin reparativus.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin reparativus restorative (6th cent.; from 14th cent. in British sources) < classical Latin reparāt- , past participial stem of reparāre repair v.² + -īvus -ive suffix. With use as noun compare post-classical Latin reparativa (plural) restoratives, tonics (12th cent. in a British source).

A. adj.

a. Relating to repair; capable of or tending to repair something, esp. a body or body part; restorative, curative. Frequently in medical contexts.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > amending > [adjective]

remediousa1450

amendablea1500

amending1551

reparative1582

corrigible1602

corrective1603

remediate1608

remedial1612

amendful1639

reparatory1648

curative1658

relevant1676

correcting1692

correctory1758

redeeming1827

rectificatory1851

rectificative1863

1582 S. Batman Vppon Bartholome, De Proprietatibus Rerum vi. xxxii. f. 98/2 Men shal giue the patient medicines confortatiue and reparatiue, that restore the spirites, and bringeth them againe.

1656 Disc. Auxiliary Beauty 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.

1724 Pharmacopæia Venerea 20 After taking..the Diuretick Reparative Elixir for Broken Constitutions..Persons will make a deal of mucilaginous, slimy foul urine.

1768 W. Donaldson Life Sir Bartholomew Sapskull I. ix. 99 The barber-surgeons (who in a reparative sense are face painters).

1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 448/1 There is scarcely an example..that did not exhibit a considerable display of reparative energy.

1853 J. E. Erichsen Sci. & Art Surg. xlviii. 665 By plastic or reparative surgery is meant those processes by which mutilations are repaired, and loss of structure replaced.

1876 T. Bryant Pract. Surg. (ed. 2) I. i. 10 What influence the nerves of the part have upon the reparative process we know not.

1901 Science Nov. 15 776 The raised scar..resulting from the continued irritation of the original incision..and the over-production of reparative tissue lifting the design in welts.

1983 F. Spalding Vanessa Bell 19 The studio offered a reparative quiet.

2005 Philadelphia Sept. 208/3 (advt.) The client is slathered in a highly hydrating and reparative serum containing walnut extract and kamani oils.

b. Psychiatry (originally and chiefly U.S.). Designating a form of psychotherapy aimed at understanding and addressing the formative experiences underlying a psychiatric condition; (now chiefly) spec. designating any of various forms of psychotherapy based on the view that homosexuality is a mental disorder that can be cured by addressing its causes. Chiefly in reparative therapy. Also: of or relating to therapy of this type.

ΚΠ

1944 A. N. Foxe in Jrnl. Nerv. & Mental Disorders Dec. 589 It may be taken as an axiom that any reparative therapy is binding—it binds the individual to the situation in which his illness developed.

1956 G. S. Goldman Reparative Psycholtherapy in S. Rado & G. E. Daniels Changing Concepts Psychoanalytic Med. 103 The goals of reparative psychotherapy are limited... The primary aim is the alleviation or elimination of symptoms.

1961 R. R. Grinker et al. Psychiatric Social Work v. 121 The conditions suitable for reparative therapy are mild neuroses, neuroses too serious for psychoanalysis, or when psychoanalysis is unavailable.

1965 P. Mayerson & H. I. Lief in J. Marmor Sexual Inversion xvii. 315 Reparative therapy is the usual method employed in the residents' clinic; the data shows that many patients with homosexual problems can be significantly helped by this type of therapy.

1970 J. Stein Neurosis in Contemp. Society 195/1 The reparative therapist distinguishes insight from mere understanding.

1993 Washington Times (Nexis) 22 Apr. b4 Reparative therapy poses a real threat to the gay-rights movement..because it undermines two of its key assumptions: that homosexuals are born that way and that they cannot change.

2005 G. Walton in J. T. Sears Youth, Educ., & Sexuality 710 Reparative therapy signifies that being LGBT is inferior to being heterosexual, and for some young men and women marks a traumatic experience.

2. Intended to make amends for a wrong or harm done; compensatory. Also: intended to remedy an undesirable condition or situation.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > amending > [adjective] > putting right a wrong or loss

reparative1652

redressive1727

1652 W. Hartley Infant-baptism 9 Unless we affirm that the Death of Christ be incommensurably reparative to our fall in Adam.

1683 J. Kettlewell Help & Exhort. to Worthy Communicating iii. iv. 338 Suits are unlawfully entred, when they are Vindictive not Reparative.

1795 tr. L. S. Mercier Fragm. Politics & Hist. II. 12 In all these reparative wars..the triumphant party has invariably justice on its side.

1820 Asiatic Jrnl. & Monthly Reg. Mar. 288/1 The friends of persecuted virtue, the lovers of reparative justice, and the admirers of the first class of talent.

1875 E. Poste tr. Gaius Institutionum Iuris Civilis (ed. 2) ii. §79 It is no bar to a reparative personal action against the thief.

1889 Times 31 Aug. 5/1 Having by reparative acts remedied the most pressing evils.

1913 Jrnl. Amer. Inst. Criminal Law & Criminol. 4 475 He writes that a punishment is not reparative, it does not cure the harm done the victim by the crime.

1949 M. B. McNamee in N. S. J. Weyand Immortal Diamond vii. 248 By His suffering Christ gave all suffering a new value and meaning. He elevated it to the dignity of redemptive and reparative sacrifice.

2006 J. Gardner in M. W. Dowdle Public Accountability ix. 240 Reparative damages in tort law are not in their nature punitive.

B. n.

Something intended to remedy an undesirable condition or situation; spec. a medicinal preparation which promotes repair.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > amending > [noun] > a means of

corrector1603

reparativea1639

corrective1854

a1639 H. Wotton Short View Life Duke of Buckingham (1642) 22 He saw plainly that he must abroad again to rectifie..his own reputation; Whereupon new preparatives were in hand, and partly reparatives of the former beaten at Sea.

1750 Coll. Loyal Songs, Poems 51 Briton's Loss is past all Reparative.

1843 C. G. F. Gore Mod. Chivalry I. ix. 40 Estimating the age of her guest, in spite of all Delcroix's preservatives and reparatives, to be coeval with her own.

1859 S. Durkee Treat. on Gonorrhœa & Syphilis xxxiii. 363 As a reparative to ordinary sloughing ulcers, wherever situated, I regard it [sc. benzoin] as possessing great merit.

2003 Cultural Critique No. 55. 121 Personal memory..seems clearly to be a performative construction,..and in many ways, has no connection with the reality it purports to represent as a reparative to the effacement of history.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	reparative
释义	reparativeadj.n. Brit. /rᵻˈparətɪv/, /ˈrɛp(ə)rətɪv/, U.S. /rəˈpɛrədɪv/, /riˈpɛrədɪv/ Forms: 1500s reparatiue, 1600s– reparative. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin reparativus. Etymology: < post-classical Latin reparativus restorative (6th cent.; from 14th cent. in British sources) < classical Latin reparāt- , past participial stem of reparāre repair v.² + -īvus -ive suffix. With use as noun compare post-classical Latin reparativa (plural) restoratives, tonics (12th cent. in a British source). A. adj. 1. a. Relating to repair; capable of or tending to repair something, esp. a body or body part; restorative, curative. Frequently in medical contexts. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > amending > [adjective] remediousa1450 amendablea1500 amending1551 reparative1582 corrigible1602 corrective1603 remediate1608 remedial1612 amendful1639 reparatory1648 curative1658 relevant1676 correcting1692 correctory1758 redeeming1827 rectificatory1851 rectificative1863 1582 S. Batman Vppon Bartholome, De Proprietatibus Rerum vi. xxxii. f. 98/2 Men shal giue the patient medicines confortatiue and reparatiue, that restore the spirites, and bringeth them againe. 1656 Disc. Auxiliary Beauty 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. 1724 Pharmacopæia Venerea 20 After taking..the Diuretick Reparative Elixir for Broken Constitutions..Persons will make a deal of mucilaginous, slimy foul urine. 1768 W. Donaldson Life Sir Bartholomew Sapskull I. ix. 99 The barber-surgeons (who in a reparative sense are face painters). 1835–6 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. I. 448/1 There is scarcely an example..that did not exhibit a considerable display of reparative energy. 1853 J. E. Erichsen Sci. & Art Surg. xlviii. 665 By plastic or reparative surgery is meant those processes by which mutilations are repaired, and loss of structure replaced. 1876 T. Bryant Pract. Surg. (ed. 2) I. i. 10 What influence the nerves of the part have upon the reparative process we know not. 1901 Science Nov. 15 776 The raised scar..resulting from the continued irritation of the original incision..and the over-production of reparative tissue lifting the design in welts. 1983 F. Spalding Vanessa Bell 19 The studio offered a reparative quiet. 2005 Philadelphia Sept. 208/3 (advt.) The client is slathered in a highly hydrating and reparative serum containing walnut extract and kamani oils. b. Psychiatry (originally and chiefly U.S.). Designating a form of psychotherapy aimed at understanding and addressing the formative experiences underlying a psychiatric condition; (now chiefly) spec. designating any of various forms of psychotherapy based on the view that homosexuality is a mental disorder that can be cured by addressing its causes. Chiefly in reparative therapy. Also: of or relating to therapy of this type. ΚΠ 1944 A. N. Foxe in Jrnl. Nerv. & Mental Disorders Dec. 589 It may be taken as an axiom that any reparative therapy is binding—it binds the individual to the situation in which his illness developed. 1956 G. S. Goldman Reparative Psycholtherapy in S. Rado & G. E. Daniels Changing Concepts Psychoanalytic Med. 103 The goals of reparative psychotherapy are limited... The primary aim is the alleviation or elimination of symptoms. 1961 R. R. Grinker et al. Psychiatric Social Work v. 121 The conditions suitable for reparative therapy are mild neuroses, neuroses too serious for psychoanalysis, or when psychoanalysis is unavailable. 1965 P. Mayerson & H. I. Lief in J. Marmor Sexual Inversion xvii. 315 Reparative therapy is the usual method employed in the residents' clinic; the data shows that many patients with homosexual problems can be significantly helped by this type of therapy. 1970 J. Stein Neurosis in Contemp. Society 195/1 The reparative therapist distinguishes insight from mere understanding. 1993 Washington Times (Nexis) 22 Apr. b4 Reparative therapy poses a real threat to the gay-rights movement..because it undermines two of its key assumptions: that homosexuals are born that way and that they cannot change. 2005 G. Walton in J. T. Sears Youth, Educ., & Sexuality 710 Reparative therapy signifies that being LGBT is inferior to being heterosexual, and for some young men and women marks a traumatic experience. 2. Intended to make amends for a wrong or harm done; compensatory. Also: intended to remedy an undesirable condition or situation. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > amending > [adjective] > putting right a wrong or loss reparative1652 redressive1727 1652 W. Hartley Infant-baptism 9 Unless we affirm that the Death of Christ be incommensurably reparative to our fall in Adam. 1683 J. Kettlewell Help & Exhort. to Worthy Communicating iii. iv. 338 Suits are unlawfully entred, when they are Vindictive not Reparative. 1795 tr. L. S. Mercier Fragm. Politics & Hist. II. 12 In all these reparative wars..the triumphant party has invariably justice on its side. 1820 Asiatic Jrnl. & Monthly Reg. Mar. 288/1 The friends of persecuted virtue, the lovers of reparative justice, and the admirers of the first class of talent. 1875 E. Poste tr. Gaius Institutionum Iuris Civilis (ed. 2) ii. §79 It is no bar to a reparative personal action against the thief. 1889 Times 31 Aug. 5/1 Having by reparative acts remedied the most pressing evils. 1913 Jrnl. Amer. Inst. Criminal Law & Criminol. 4 475 He writes that a punishment is not reparative, it does not cure the harm done the victim by the crime. 1949 M. B. McNamee in N. S. J. Weyand Immortal Diamond vii. 248 By His suffering Christ gave all suffering a new value and meaning. He elevated it to the dignity of redemptive and reparative sacrifice. 2006 J. Gardner in M. W. Dowdle Public Accountability ix. 240 Reparative damages in tort law are not in their nature punitive. B. n. Something intended to remedy an undesirable condition or situation; spec. a medicinal preparation which promotes repair. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > amending > [noun] > a means of corrector1603 reparativea1639 corrective1854 a1639 H. Wotton Short View Life Duke of Buckingham (1642) 22 He saw plainly that he must abroad again to rectifie..his own reputation; Whereupon new preparatives were in hand, and partly reparatives of the former beaten at Sea. 1750 Coll. Loyal Songs, Poems 51 Briton's Loss is past all Reparative. 1843 C. G. F. Gore Mod. Chivalry I. ix. 40 Estimating the age of her guest, in spite of all Delcroix's preservatives and reparatives, to be coeval with her own. 1859 S. Durkee Treat. on Gonorrhœa & Syphilis xxxiii. 363 As a reparative to ordinary sloughing ulcers, wherever situated, I regard it [sc. benzoin] as possessing great merit. 2003 Cultural Critique No. 55. 121 Personal memory..seems clearly to be a performative construction,..and in many ways, has no connection with the reality it purports to represent as a reparative to the effacement of history. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.n.1582
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