repletive

Adjective

repletive (comparative more repletive, superlative most repletive)

1. Tending to make replete; filling.
   • 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.
   • 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
3. Ubiquitious; 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
   • Christ is also present in the Supper by virtue of his "repletive presence.”2015, Hans Boersma, Matthew Levering, The Oxford Handbook of Sacramental Theology
4. Causing 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
   • 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

   Antonyms:

   depletive

5. (Chinese, traditional) Associated 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
   • 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 studies) Pertaining 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
   • […] 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
7. Implying or anticipating the subject which comes after the verb, as in "There is a house over there."
   • The real problems come from the other two uses of er—its repletive and pronominal uses.2002, Kevin Cook, Dubbel Dutch, page 75
   • ' Finally, repletive elements are also frequently employed in impersonal passives.2010, Anna Siewierska, Constituent Order in the Languages of Europe, page 94