The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reparative
Reparative \Re*par"a*tive\ (r?-p?r"?-t?v), a.
Repairing, or tending to repair.
--Jer. Taylor.
Reparative
Reparative \Re*par"a*tive\, n.
That which repairs.
--Sir H. Wotton.
Wiktionary
reparative
a. 1 Tending to or intended to repair. 2 Of, pertaining to, or being a reparation. n. That which repairs.
Usage examples of "reparative".
Dismissing abstract difference of quality, a thing difficult to verify, the efficiency of an organ is known to depend not solely on its size but on its activity: and of this we have an approximate measure in the energy with which the blood circulates through it, both the stimulus and the reparative force being mainly dependent on the circulation.
Hughes was still in the operating room, performing a reparative surgery.