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recuperative, a. (and n.)|rɪˈk(j)uːpərətɪv|
[ad. late L. recuperātīvus recoverable: see recuperate and -ive.]
A. adj.
†1. Recoverable (Cockeram 1623). Obs. rare—0.
2. Belonging to, concerned with, the recovery of something lost. ? Obs.
1650R. Hollingworth Exerc. Usurped Powers 14 The known law and practise of all nations..with one vote allow defensive and recuperative arms. c1690in Lathbury Nonjurors (1845) 119 If ever he should recover the throne in a recuperative war. 1858De Quincey Wks. XI. Pref. 10 Lost and hid away in secret chambers of moonshine beyond the ‘recuperative’ powers (Johnsonically speaking) of Apollonius himself.
3. a. Having the power of restoring (a person or thing) to a proper state.
1861Gladstone Sp. Ho. Comm. 2 May, The abolition of these duties is not what is called recuperative. 1872M. Collins Pr. Clarice I. vi. 92 Claret-cup, properly administered, is almost as recuperative as salts and senna.
b. Of or belonging to recuperation or recovery of health, vigour, etc.
1860Emerson Cond. Life, Power Wks. (Bohn) II. 333 We watch in children with pathetic interest the degree in which they possess recuperative force. 1890G. M. Humphry Old Age 154 High breeding in most animals conduces to a marked diminution in the bodily recuperative capacity.
4. Having the power of recuperating.
1862Trollope N. Amer. II. 103 ‘We are a recuperative people’, a west-country gentleman once said to me.
5. Of, pertaining to, or being a recuperator (sense 2), or an air heater using the same principle.
1906A. L. J. Queneau tr. Damour's Industr. Furnaces x. 142 The volume..of the recuperative chambers should be calculated to suit the exchange of the calories to be effected, according to the specific heats of the recuperating refractory bricks. 1923Iron Age CXI. 1782 The recuperative installation is adopted where blast furnace or coke oven gas is available. 1930Engineering 31 Jan. 155/2 Two methods of transferring heat from a hot gas to a cold one were in use, and might be distinguished as belonging, respectively, to the recuperative and to the regenerative type. In the recuperative type, the cool and the hot gases were separated by a conducting wall through which the transfer of heat took place. 1938Jrnl. Iron & Steel Inst. CXXXVIII. 327p Of the 848 pit holes surveyed,..6·2% are of the one-way-fired recuperative type, 2·1% are of the bottom-fired recuperative type. 1962[see recuperator 2]. 1971B. Scharf Engin. & its Language xiv. 204 Air heaters are classified as recuperative or regenerative, and the recuperative heaters are further subdivided into tubular or plate-type heaters.
B. n. A substance which restores land to fertility.
1883J. C. Bloomfield Fisheries Ireland 7 (Fish. Exh. Publ.), Such refuse of the cod as its head and backbone turned into a valuable agricultural recuperative.
Hence reˈcuperativeness.
a1901F. W. H. Myers Hum. Personality (1903) I. 194 Can it be some kind of self-suggestion which prevents the mammal from crediting himself with crustacean recuperativeness? |