recuperativeadj.n.

Brit.

/rᵻˈk(j)uːp(ə)rətɪv/, U.S.

/rəˈkupəˌreɪdɪv/,

/riˈkupəˌreɪdɪv/,

/rəˈkup(ə)rədɪv/,

/riˈkup(ə)rədɪv/

Forms: 1600s recuperatiue, 1600s– recuperative.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: Latin recuperativus ; recuperate v., -ive suffix.

Etymology: Originally < post-classical Latin recuperativus (also reciperativus) recoverable (4th or 5th cent.), that has the power of restoring or strengthening (6th cent.) < classical Latin recuperāt- , past participial stem of recuperāre recuperate v. + -īvus -ive suffix; in later use also partly < recuperate v. + -ive suffix.With sense A. 5 compare recuperator n. 3, recuperation n. 3.

A. adj.

†1. = recoverable adj. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > acquisition > [adjective] > retrievable or recoverable

recuperable?a1439

recoverablea1500

recuperative1623

repertible1656

retrievable1661

regainable1707

redeemable1850

1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Recuperatiue. Which may be recouered.

2. Of or relating to the recovery of something lost or taken. rare after 17th cent.

ΚΠ

1650 Exercitation conc. Usurped Powers 14 The known law and practise of all nations..with one vote allow defensive and recuperative arms.

c1690 in T. Lathbury Nonjurors (1845) 119 If ever he should recover the throne in a recuperative war.

1713 H. Bedford Vindic. Her Majesty's Title & Govt. 30 Most of the Wars made by the Kings of England have been recuperative, either for themselves, or their Allies.

1859 T. De Quincey Select. Grave & Gay XI. Pref. 10 Lost and hid away in secret chambers of moonshine beyond the ‘recuperative’ powers (Johnsonically speaking) of Apollonius himself.

1983 Times Lit. Suppl. 9 Dec. 1386/4 Leach and Cardew were right to see pottery, in the twentieth century, as a recuperative, conservative and traditional practice, and they set about reviving the tradition in order that they could be original within it.

a. That has the power of restoring a person to health or a thing to its proper state.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > [adjective]

medicinala1384

wholesomea1387

healinga1398

medicinablea1398

restorativea1398

sanative14..

curatory?a1425

remediable1437

mildlya1475

curable1483

recurablea1500

curative1525

eradicative1543

good1580

physical1580

medicable1590

sanable1598

balsamic1605

therapeutical1606

medicinary1607

medicative1644

medical1646

therapeutic1646

salutary1649

salvative1653

boethetic1656

medicamentary1656

recuperatory1656

sanitating1656

medicamental1657

medicamentous1659

medicating1705

balmy1747

salving1751

sanatorya1832

salubrious1855

medicatory1864

recuperative1872

1781 W. Auckland Considerations submitted to People Ireland 33 Nor did parliament dismember itself of its essential atrributes, nor prevent the constitution from recovering itself by its own native vigor or recuperative principle.

1793 Charge delivered to Grand Jury of Dublin 9 Our system, say they, has..a recuperative quality in the constitution, which enables it to purge and slough off without innovation or violence its own impurities.

1861 W. E. Gladstone in Parl. Deb. 3rd Ser. 162 1404 The abolition of these duties is not what is called ‘recuperative’.

1872 M. Collins Princess Clarice I. vi. 92 Claret-cup, properly administered, is almost as recuperative as salts and senna.

a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xiii. 266 In the large earth humble-bee in particular.., there are recuperative days, perhaps the only approach to a holiday in the queen's life.

1969 Listener 3 Apr. 470/1 No music is more recuperative than Mozart's and, in the therapy stakes, none runs it as close as Webern's.

2006 Evening Standard (Nexis) 29 Aug. 32 While alcohol can help people drop off quicker, it significantly impairs the recuperative effects of any subsequent sleep.

b. Designating the power of recuperation from illness, exertion, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > recovery > [adjective]

recuperative1843

the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > refreshment or invigoration > [adjective]

cooling?c1425

comfortablec1440

refreshing1534

rousing1576

vegetant1576

reviving1579

refriscative1582

refrigerating1583

cordial1584

airy1591

freshing1591

animating1595

fertile1597

recreating1600

refective1611

refreshfula1614

comforting1623

refrigerant1626

erecting1654

cordialine1674

refocillating1675

corroboratinga1680

refectory1693

invigorating1694

restoring1697

freshful1734

enlivening1746–7

livelya1754

tonic1756

stimulatory1758

vivifying1768

energizing1786

stimulative1791

refreshening1807

vitalizing1813

stimulating1827

recuperative1843

invigorative1860

innerving1868

breezy1870

tonicizing1890

reparatory1893

1843 R. W. Emerson Let. Oct. in Uncoll. Poems xxxiii. 1276 Though the recuperative force in every man may be relied on infinitely, it must be relied on, before it will exert itself.

1860 R. W. Emerson Power in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 54 We watch in children, with pathetic interest, the degree in which they possess recuperative force.

1890 G. M. Humphry Old Age 154 High breeding in most animals conduces to a marked diminution in the bodily recuperative capacity.

1976 New Yorker 1 Mar. 80/3–81/1 During his stay in the state hospital, where his astonishing recuperative powers soon became evident.

1993 N.Y. Times Mag. 21 Mar. 50/3 Meditation may slow or reverse this perpetual drain on the body's recuperative abilities.

†4. Able to recuperate. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1862 A. Trollope N. Amer. II. 103 ‘We are a recuperative people’, a west-country gentleman once said to me.

5. Engineering. Designating a recuperator (recuperator n. 3); employing or relating to heat exchange using continuous countercurrent flows.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > furnace or kiln > [adjective] > types of

reverbatory1594

reverberatory1613

reverberating1650

reverberated1678

downdraught1854

regenerating1858

regenerative1861

recuperative1864

reverbating1868

1864 T. Schwartz U.S. Patent 45,526 1/1 A new system of engines for obtaining motive power from atmospheric air, which I term a ‘recuperative caloric engine’.

1906 A. L. J. Queneau tr. E. Damour 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.

1930 Engineering 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.

1962 G. R. Bashforth Manuf. Iron & Steel IV. ii. 39 In the recuperative type of soaking pit, the flow of fuel and air is maintained in one direction... The waste products of combustion pass through a recuperative chamber.

2007 Chem. Engin. Sci. 62 1164/1 As oil leaves the reactor it is cooled in a recuperative heat exchanger.

B. n.

Something which effects recuperation. Also figurative. rare.In quot. 1883, spec. a substance which restores soil fertility.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > [noun] > fertilizer or manure

fatnessc1420

amendment1483

manure1532

manuring1577

battling1600

dressing1600

worth1609

sucken1615

folding1626

fertilizera1661

sumen1662

recuperativec1679

field dressing1743

top-dressing1744

sweetener1765

settera1793

mendment1798

side dressing1819

substratum1822

manurer1829

liquid manure1837

soil amendment1915

side dress1920

Growmore1944

soil conditioner1952

c1679 in L. Howard Coll. Lett. from Orig. MSS (1753) 119 From hence will be had Antidotes against the Jesuits Powder, Preservatives against the Contagion of Popery, Cordials and Recuperatives against Schism and Defection.

1883 J. C. Bloomfield Fisheries Ireland 7 Such refuse of the cod as its head and backbone turned into a valuable agricultural recuperative.

1916 B. Irwin New Sci. Color viii. 70 The Japanese greys, lavenders, browns, yellows, purples, and greens are..etherealised editions of physical and mental sedatives and recuperatives.

Derivatives

reˈcuperativeness n. rare capacity to recover.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > recovery > [noun] > ability to

recuperativeness1856

1856 ‘Trifle’ & ‘Editor’ Trifleton Papers 260 From the ashes of her father's ruin, and her own despondency during Stubs' absence, she has come up with an extraordinary recuperativeness.

a1901 F. W. H. Myers Human Personality (1903) I. 194 Can it be some kind of self-suggestion which prevents the mammal from crediting himself with crustacean recuperativeness?

1903 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 66 593 We may trust also, as in our own case at home, to the recuperativeness of the expenditure.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	recuperative
释义	recuperativeadj.n. Brit. /rᵻˈk(j)uːp(ə)rətɪv/, U.S. /rəˈkupəˌreɪdɪv/, /riˈkupəˌreɪdɪv/, /rəˈkup(ə)rədɪv/, /riˈkup(ə)rədɪv/ Forms: 1600s recuperatiue, 1600s– recuperative. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: Latin recuperativus ; recuperate v., -ive suffix. Etymology: Originally < post-classical Latin recuperativus (also reciperativus) recoverable (4th or 5th cent.), that has the power of restoring or strengthening (6th cent.) < classical Latin recuperāt- , past participial stem of recuperāre recuperate v. + -īvus -ive suffix; in later use also partly < recuperate v. + -ive suffix.With sense A. 5 compare recuperator n. 3, recuperation n. 3. A. adj. †1. = recoverable adj. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > acquisition > [adjective] > retrievable or recoverable recuperable?a1439 recoverablea1500 recuperative1623 repertible1656 retrievable1661 regainable1707 redeemable1850 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Recuperatiue. Which may be recouered. 2. Of or relating to the recovery of something lost or taken. rare after 17th cent. ΚΠ 1650 Exercitation conc. Usurped Powers 14 The known law and practise of all nations..with one vote allow defensive and recuperative arms. c1690 in T. Lathbury Nonjurors (1845) 119 If ever he should recover the throne in a recuperative war. 1713 H. Bedford Vindic. Her Majesty's Title & Govt. 30 Most of the Wars made by the Kings of England have been recuperative, either for themselves, or their Allies. 1859 T. De Quincey Select. Grave & Gay XI. Pref. 10 Lost and hid away in secret chambers of moonshine beyond the ‘recuperative’ powers (Johnsonically speaking) of Apollonius himself. 1983 Times Lit. Suppl. 9 Dec. 1386/4 Leach and Cardew were right to see pottery, in the twentieth century, as a recuperative, conservative and traditional practice, and they set about reviving the tradition in order that they could be original within it. 3. a. That has the power of restoring a person to health or a thing to its proper state. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > [adjective] medicinala1384 wholesomea1387 healinga1398 medicinablea1398 restorativea1398 sanative14.. curatory?a1425 remediable1437 mildlya1475 curable1483 recurablea1500 curative1525 eradicative1543 good1580 physical1580 medicable1590 sanable1598 balsamic1605 therapeutical1606 medicinary1607 medicative1644 medical1646 therapeutic1646 salutary1649 salvative1653 boethetic1656 medicamentary1656 recuperatory1656 sanitating1656 medicamental1657 medicamentous1659 medicating1705 balmy1747 salving1751 sanatorya1832 salubrious1855 medicatory1864 recuperative1872 1781 W. Auckland Considerations submitted to People Ireland 33 Nor did parliament dismember itself of its essential atrributes, nor prevent the constitution from recovering itself by its own native vigor or recuperative principle. 1793 Charge delivered to Grand Jury of Dublin 9 Our system, say they, has..a recuperative quality in the constitution, which enables it to purge and slough off without innovation or violence its own impurities. 1861 W. E. Gladstone in Parl. Deb. 3rd Ser. 162 1404 The abolition of these duties is not what is called ‘recuperative’. 1872 M. Collins Princess Clarice I. vi. 92 Claret-cup, properly administered, is almost as recuperative as salts and senna. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xiii. 266 In the large earth humble-bee in particular.., there are recuperative days, perhaps the only approach to a holiday in the queen's life. 1969 Listener 3 Apr. 470/1 No music is more recuperative than Mozart's and, in the therapy stakes, none runs it as close as Webern's. 2006 Evening Standard (Nexis) 29 Aug. 32 While alcohol can help people drop off quicker, it significantly impairs the recuperative effects of any subsequent sleep. b. Designating the power of recuperation from illness, exertion, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > recovery > [adjective] recuperative1843 the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > refreshment or invigoration > [adjective] cooling?c1425 comfortablec1440 refreshing1534 rousing1576 vegetant1576 reviving1579 refriscative1582 refrigerating1583 cordial1584 airy1591 freshing1591 animating1595 fertile1597 recreating1600 refective1611 refreshfula1614 comforting1623 refrigerant1626 erecting1654 cordialine1674 refocillating1675 corroboratinga1680 refectory1693 invigorating1694 restoring1697 freshful1734 enlivening1746–7 livelya1754 tonic1756 stimulatory1758 vivifying1768 energizing1786 stimulative1791 refreshening1807 vitalizing1813 stimulating1827 recuperative1843 invigorative1860 innerving1868 breezy1870 tonicizing1890 reparatory1893 1843 R. W. Emerson Let. Oct. in Uncoll. Poems xxxiii. 1276 Though the recuperative force in every man may be relied on infinitely, it must be relied on, before it will exert itself. 1860 R. W. Emerson Power in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 54 We watch in children, with pathetic interest, the degree in which they possess recuperative force. 1890 G. M. Humphry Old Age 154 High breeding in most animals conduces to a marked diminution in the bodily recuperative capacity. 1976 New Yorker 1 Mar. 80/3–81/1 During his stay in the state hospital, where his astonishing recuperative powers soon became evident. 1993 N.Y. Times Mag. 21 Mar. 50/3 Meditation may slow or reverse this perpetual drain on the body's recuperative abilities. †4. Able to recuperate. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1862 A. Trollope N. Amer. II. 103 ‘We are a recuperative people’, a west-country gentleman once said to me. 5. Engineering. Designating a recuperator (recuperator n. 3); employing or relating to heat exchange using continuous countercurrent flows. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > furnace or kiln > [adjective] > types of reverbatory1594 reverberatory1613 reverberating1650 reverberated1678 downdraught1854 regenerating1858 regenerative1861 recuperative1864 reverbating1868 1864 T. Schwartz U.S. Patent 45,526 1/1 A new system of engines for obtaining motive power from atmospheric air, which I term a ‘recuperative caloric engine’. 1906 A. L. J. Queneau tr. E. Damour 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. 1930 Engineering 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. 1962 G. R. Bashforth Manuf. Iron & Steel IV. ii. 39 In the recuperative type of soaking pit, the flow of fuel and air is maintained in one direction... The waste products of combustion pass through a recuperative chamber. 2007 Chem. Engin. Sci. 62 1164/1 As oil leaves the reactor it is cooled in a recuperative heat exchanger. B. n. Something which effects recuperation. Also figurative. rare.In quot. 1883, spec. a substance which restores soil fertility. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > preparation of land or soil > fertilizing or manuring > [noun] > fertilizer or manure fatnessc1420 amendment1483 manure1532 manuring1577 battling1600 dressing1600 worth1609 sucken1615 folding1626 fertilizera1661 sumen1662 recuperativec1679 field dressing1743 top-dressing1744 sweetener1765 settera1793 mendment1798 side dressing1819 substratum1822 manurer1829 liquid manure1837 soil amendment1915 side dress1920 Growmore1944 soil conditioner1952 c1679 in L. Howard Coll. Lett. from Orig. MSS (1753) 119 From hence will be had Antidotes against the Jesuits Powder, Preservatives against the Contagion of Popery, Cordials and Recuperatives against Schism and Defection. 1883 J. C. Bloomfield Fisheries Ireland 7 Such refuse of the cod as its head and backbone turned into a valuable agricultural recuperative. 1916 B. Irwin New Sci. Color viii. 70 The Japanese greys, lavenders, browns, yellows, purples, and greens are..etherealised editions of physical and mental sedatives and recuperatives. Derivatives reˈcuperativeness n. rare capacity to recover. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > recovery > [noun] > ability to recuperativeness1856 1856 ‘Trifle’ & ‘Editor’ Trifleton Papers 260 From the ashes of her father's ruin, and her own despondency during Stubs' absence, she has come up with an extraordinary recuperativeness. a1901 F. W. H. Myers Human Personality (1903) I. 194 Can it be some kind of self-suggestion which prevents the mammal from crediting himself with crustacean recuperativeness? 1903 Jrnl. Royal Statist. Soc. 66 593 We may trust also, as in our own case at home, to the recuperativeness of the expenditure. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.n.1623
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