repletive

comparative more repletive · superlative most repletive

1. Tending to make replete; filling.

   The repletive effect of various foods, related to either their respective caloric density or their specific properties as nutriments, acts as a reinforcer in a "conditioning" of palatability.

   2018, Miloslav Rechcigl, Handbook of Nutritional Requirements in a Functional Context, page 291

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   Tea and coffee, with sugar and milk, are very repletive beverages taken with wholesome food, and any child of five years old, and a common share of common sense, would laugh at the idea of smoke and snuff, and tea and coffee being put in the same category.

   1871 October 1, “The Tobacco Catechism”, in The Anti-tobacco Journal, volume 1, number 7, page 136

   In the mean-term control, these repletive effects of ingested materials influence the amount eaten or drunk (in 24 h, for example) by determining the meal or draught frequency (Le Magnen & Tallon 1963, 1966 , Le Magnen 1971 ).

   1972, Olof Forsander, Kalervo Eriksson, editor, International Symposium: Biological Aspects of Alcohol Consumption, page 185

2. Restorative; serving to replenish.

   The forest is the only repletive natural resource that we have — all others are extractive .

   1967, Forests and People - Volumes 17-20, page 24

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   And his fulness is not only repletive, but diffusive; a fulness of plenty and abundance, but of bounty also and redundance.

   1867, John Trapp, A Commentary on the Old and New Testaments, page 152

   It shows clearly that the only true mode of obtaining thorough ventilation is by the exhaust system or pumping the air out, under some circumstances combined with the repletive system of forcing the air in .

   1880 October 16, James Hogg, “On the Ventilation of Public Buildings”, in Scientific American: Supplement, volume 10, page 3981

   Such, however, is the insistency that penny postage can not long be delayed and will come, and under such circumstances the postal authorities would do well to cast about for repletive revenue.

   1913, United States. Congress, Congressional Record

3. ChristianityUbiquitious; everywhere; unbounded by physical constraints.

   This repletive existence is now attributed also to the body of Christ.

   1905, Reinhold Seeberg, History of doctrines in the middle and modern ages, page 326

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   Christ is also present in the Supper by virtue of his "repletive presence.”

   2015, Hans Boersma, Matthew Levering, The Oxford Handbook of Sacramental Theology

   This could be the structural framework which explains Brenz's sharply distinguished – if not diastatic – notion between the circumscriptive and the repletive sphere.

   2012, Joar Haga, Was there a Lutheran Metaphysics?:, page 143

   Finally, there is "repletive ubeity ", which Leibniz assigns to God, and who “operates immediately on all created things, continually producing them, whereas finite minds cannot immediately influence or operate upon them".

   2016, Edward Slowik, The Deep Metaphysics of Space, page 249

4. medicineCausing blood to flow to (a body part)

   This pig died from extreme exhaustion of all the repletive functions.

   1880, John M. McGehee, “Review of Special Report No. 12”, in United States. Department of Agriculture, editor, Special Report 22: Contagious Diseases of Domesticated Animals, page 95

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   Active movements are always repletive to the working muscles and, if large groups of muscles are worked, they are depletive to other parts of the body.

   1945 ·, Mary Victoria Lace, Massage and Medical Gymnastics, page 40

   The exercises should not be too strongly repletive to the pelvis, because such produce too violent a depletion of the head.

   2013, Noël M. Tidy, Massage and Remedial Exercises, page 337

   Antonyms: depletive

5. ChinesetraditionalmedicineAssociated with oiliness and characterized by fullness or excess, such as with inflammation, swelling; mucus production, puss, etc.

   The realm of therapeutics divides in the cosmic duality of the unctuous or repletive and the dry or depletive.

   1992, Charles Leslie, Charles M. Leslie, Allan Young, Paths to Asian Medical Knowledge, page 213

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   Also [inversely], if among a great number of repletive symptoms suddenly signs of depletion manifest themselves, these latter will require the most urgent attention, even if depletion is limited to one or two spots only.

   2001, Manfred Porkert, Chinese Medical Diagnostics, page x

   Antonyms: depletive

6. urban studiesPertaining to a phase of infilling.

   Indeed, on some burgages at the west and east ends there has been repletive development since the First World War.

   1960, M. R. G. Conzen, Alnwick, Northumberland: A Study in Town-plan Analysis, page 96

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   […] better structures facing the main street, an example of what has been identified as the burgage cycle, a phenomenon wherein "the repletive and saturation or climax phases of the cycle transform the land behind the houses forming the street fronts into a dangerous, rat-infested slum."

   1989, James Bruce Thomas, Mixed Blessings, page 181

   He traced the transformation of the street as a three-phase development cycle: an institutive phase (1827-53), during which regular urban blocks were founded on both sides of the street; a repletive phase (ca. 1860-1937), during which the original regular urban blocks were slowly developed and filled; and finally a recessive phase (1960s-73), which saw the demolition of old buildings, and was followed by a fallow period.

   1996, A. G. Papadopoulos, Urban Regimes and Strategies, page 38

7. human sciencesImplying or anticipating the subject which comes after the verb, as in "There is a house over there."

   ' Finally, repletive elements are also frequently employed in impersonal passives.

   2010, Anna Siewierska, Constituent Order in the Languages of Europe, page 94

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   The real problems come from the other two uses of er—its repletive and pronominal uses.

   2002, Kevin Cook, Dubbel Dutch, page 75

   The distinction between the following couplets is identical in both Afrikaans and English with the forms with repletive daar, or 'there' sounding more usual:

   2011, Bruce C. Donaldson, A Grammar of Afrikaans, page 132