repletiveadj.

1565 J. Hall Expositiue Table 90 in tr. Lanfranc Most Excellent Woorke Chirurg. This substance repletiue, the worke of nature, of the grosse nurishment of the bone.

a1628 J. Preston Plenitudo Fontis (1645) 5 How much more then should this fulnes of Christ worke on us, especially since there is in him not onely a repletive but a diffusive fulnes; not onely plenty, but also bounty?

1776 tr. G. van Swieten Comm. Boerhaave's Aphorisms (new ed.) V. 204 They [sc. cordials] supply the necessary quantity of healthy humours... The first sort of cordials are usually termed repletive.

1843 Provinc. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 6 345/1 Under these circumstances, it was determined to try a restorative and repletive plan. A nourishing diet was ordered, with malt liquor and some other stimulants.

1867 N. Amer. Rev. July 293 It is the general evil of making education repletive instead of tonic,..of imparting information, and cramming the memory with details, instead of stimulating the mind to thought.

1922 S. Webb & B. Webb Eng. Prisons under Local Govt. ix. 137 That the new dietaries are of a sufficiently nutritious character, though less repletive than the former, I have no doubt.

1960 Trans. & Papers (Inst. Brit. Geographers) 27 71 The importance of Bondgate Without already caused some repletive plot development before 1850.

1606 N. Baxter Sir Philip Sydneys Ouránia sig. C2 A certaine place must euery Angel beare. Not circumscriptiue but definitiue. Pan fils eache place in manner repletiue.

a1660 H. Hammond Serm. (1664) vii. 97 Faith..is repletive in the whole house at once.

1733 I. Watts Ontol. in Philos. Ess. (1734) 382 God's Omnipresence..hath been termed his repletive Presence.

1844 Bibliotheca Sacra & Theol. Rev. 1 770 Angels..neither occupy space, nor are they confined nor restrained by it, (..they are neither repletive nor circumscriptive).

1888 A. Cave tr. I. A. Dorner Syst. Christian Doctr. (rev. ed.) I. xix. 241 Both ancient writers and new teach that God is repletive in everything, He is omnipresent in everything by His Substance.

1908 New Schaff-Herzog Encycl. Relig. Knowl. XII. 52 That the real presence in the host naturally follows repletive existence is selfevident, but proved too much [for Luther]; for it imperiled the unique sacramental presence, making it superfluous.

1951 W. M. Urban Humanity & Deity viii. 279 The schoolmen attempted..to express this existence of God, this ubeity which they called omnipresence, as ‘repletive’, distinguishing it from other kinds of whereness, ‘circumscriptive’ and ‘definitive’, the first being applied to bodies, the second to souls.

2005 J. Webster Confessing God iv. 102 In Aquinas' terms,..God's omnipresence is repletive, a presence without bodily or spatial hindrance, filling and acting on all things which have their being in him.

1588 G. Babington Profitable Expos. Lords Prayer 115 God is not meant to bee in heauen..circumscriptiuely..but (that we may so speak) repletiuely, because with his absence he replenisheth and filleth heauen and earth.

1621 T. Lodge tr. S. Goulart Learned Summary Poeme of Saluste of Bartas i. vi. 291 Shee [sc. the soul] is not in the body repletiuely, for that appertaineth to him onely who filleth all things.

1775 R. Robinson tr. J. Saurin Serm. I. iii. 60 His essence was really in heaven, but yet, repletively, as they express it, in every part of the universe.

1871 C. Hodge Systematic Theol. I. v. 383 God is in space repletively. He fills all space.

1935 Church Hist. 4 184 Something is present repletively, supernaturally, when it is at all places in its entire form and still cannot be measured or grasped.

2006 M. M. Adams Christ & Horrors x. 302 He maintains that the Body and Blood of Christ are in place repletively..in such a way as to fill all things.