单词 | restitutive |
释义 | restitutiveadj.ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > amending > restoration > [adjective] > consequent or dependent on restitutive1659 1659 T. Burton Diary 5 Mar. (1828) IV. 26 The question now is, what that house shall be, whether constitutive or restitutive. Restitutive is dangerous. 2. Tending to restore something to a former state or position. Cf. restitution n. 5. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > mechanics > force > [adjective] > specific attributes of force restitutive1683 unpolar1843 powerful1859 equipotential1865 non-central1929 1683 W. Charleton Three Anat. Lect. iii. 101 In every Diastole of the heart, the few and little drops of the Succus Nervosus..are by the restitutive motion of the same Fibres, squeez'd out of those Pores into the Parenchyma of the Heart. 1702 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 23 1218 The Muscles have no restitutive motion, but what they derive from the Action of their Antagonists. 1756 T. Amory Life John Buncle I. 181 This contractive restitutive force [of muscles]. a1774 O. Goldsmith Surv. Exper. Philos. (1776) I. 190 The restitutive force acting upon it constantly, it will acquire such an accelerated velocity, as to drive it into the opposite ellipse CD. 1846 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 9 101/1 The restitutive forces are no longer able to restore the original form of the body. 1884 A. Daniell Text-bk. Princ. Physics 235 Under any given distortion within the limits of restitutive power, the restitution-pressure is equal to the product of the coefficient of restitution into the distortion. 1930 Q. Rev. Biol. 5 11/2 ‘Persistent embryonic cells’..are concerned in restitutive processes. 1962 Times 28 Dec. 4/2 What is the restitutive function of sleep? 1990 M. Stanton Sándor Ferenczi 196 ‘Hate’..sets in motion primordial destructive and restitutive forces. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1659 |
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