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English

Noun

Something believed to have restoring properties

References

OED2

Adjective

restorative

Of or pertaining to restoring.
:After a long day working in the fields Clarance took comfort in a restorative pint of beer.

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Restorative \Re*stor"a*tive\ (r?*st?r"?*t?v), a. [Cf. F.
restoratif.]
Of or pertaining to restoration; having power to restore.
[1913 Webster]

Destroys life's enemy,
Hunger, with sweet restorative delight. --Milton.
[1913 Webster]

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Restorative \Re*stor"a*tive\, n.
Something which serves to restore; especially, a restorative
medicine. --Arbuthnot.
[1913 Webster]

WordNet restorative
adj 1: tending to impart new life and vigor to; "the renewing
warmth of the sunshine" [syn: renewing, reviving,
revitalizing, revitalising]
2: promoting recuperation; "recuperative powers"; "strongly
recuperative remedies"; "restorative effects of exercise"
[syn: recuperative]
n 1: a medicine that strengthens and invigorates [syn: tonic]
2: a device for treating injury or disease [syn: corrective]

Moby Dictionary
Phoenixlike , activator , adjuvant , aid , alterative , analeptic ,
animator , arouser , assistance , astringent , balm , balsam , bracer ,
bracing , compensatory , cordial , corrective , corroborant , curative ,
cure , curing , energizer , healing , healing agent , healing quality ,
help , human dynamo , iatric , indemnificatory , invigorating , life ,
medicative , medicinal , motivating force , motive power , pick-me-up ,
prescription , re-creative , re-formative , reappearing , receipt ,
recipe , redeeming , redemptional , redemptive , refreshing ,
regenerative , relief , remedial , remedial measure , remedy ,
renascent , reorganizational , reparative , reparatory , reproductive ,
restitutive , restitutory , resurgent , retributive , reversional ,
reversionary , revertible , revisional , reviving , roborant , sanative ,
sanatory , sovereign remedy , spark plug , specific , specific remedy ,
stimulant , stimulating , stimulator , stimulus , strengthening ,
succor , therapeutic , theriac , tonic , vitamin shot , vulnerary ,
wholesome