restorative

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Serving to restore.

   After a long day working in the fields Clarence took comfort in a restorative pint of beer.

2. 2
   noun

   Something with restoring properties.

   Marianne’s joy was almost a degree beyond happiness, so great was the perturbation of her spirits and her impatience to be gone. Her unwillingness to quit her mother was her only restorative to calmness; and at the moment of parting her grief on that score was excessive.

3. 3
   noun

   An alcoholic drink, especially with tonic.

   “Well, let's hope you're right, darling. In the meantime,” said Kipper, “if I don't get that whisky-and-soda soon, I shall disintegrate. Would you mind if I went in search of it, Mrs Travers?” “It's the very thing I was about to suggest myself. Dash along and drink your fill, my unhappy young stag at eve.” “I'm feeling rather like a restorative, too,” said Bobbie. “Me also,” I said, swept along on the tide of the popular movement. “Though I would advise,” I said, when we were outside, “making it port. More authority.”

4. 4
   adj

   promoting recuperation

5. 5
   adj

   tending to impart new life and vigor to

6. 6
   noun

   a device for treating injury or disease

7. 7
   noun

   a medicine that strengthens and invigorates

Etymology

From Middle English restoratif, restoratyve, from Old French restoratif, restauratif and Medieval Latin restaurātīvus. Equivalent to restore + -ative.