Definition of Reparative

1. a. Repairing, or tending to repair.

2. n. That which repairs.

Definition of Reparative

1. Adjective. Tending to or intended to repair. ¹

2. Adjective. Of, pertaining to, or being a reparation. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Reparative

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Reparative

repaperings
repapers
reparability
reparable
reparably
reparameterization
reparametrization
reparametrizations
reparate
reparated
reparates
reparating
reparation
reparational
reparations
reparative (current term)
reparative dentin
reparative giant cell granuloma
reparative therapies
reparative therapy
reparel
reparent
reparented
reparenting
reparents
repark
reparked
reparking
reparks
reparse

Literary usage of Reparative

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The London Medical Gazette (1849)
"I need not now describe the mode of developement of the reparative material provided for ... In its gradual progress, the reparative material becomes com- ..."

2. Medico-chirurgical Transactions (1859)
"THE reparative process in human tendons after subcutaneous division has not, so far as I am aware, hitherto been investigated in its different stages; ..."

3. The Retrospect of Medicine by William Braithwaite (1856)
"ON THE PATHOLOGY OF THE reparative PROCESS IN TENDONS, &c., ... reparative Process in Human Tendons.—The paucity of facts bearing upon this very interesting ..."

4. Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri, William West Smithers, Joseph Ignatius Kelly, John Lisle (1917)
"Positive Means of Social Defense: reparative Measures. The reparative form of social reaction or regulation, like the others which remain to be dealt with, ..."

5. Criminal Sociology by Enrico Ferri, William West Smithers, Joseph Ignatius Kelly, John Lisle (1917)
"Positive Means of Social Defense: reparative Measures. The reparative form of social reaction or regulation, like the others which remain to be dealt ..."

6. Foundation for a new theory and practice of medicine by Thomas Inman (1860)
"... old— The reparative power is as definite as the nutritive, and varies with it—Case —Circumstances influence the reparative force—In health every organ ..."

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