Word Meanings - COMPENSATORY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Serving for compensation; making amends. Jer. Taylor.

RESTORATIVELY
In a restorative manner.
INVIGORATION
The act of invigorating, or the state of being invigorated.
REMEDIAL
Affording a remedy; intended for a remedy, or for the removal or abatement of an evil; as, remedial treatment. Statutes are declaratory or remedial. Blackstone. It is an evil not compensated by any beneficial result; it is not remedial,
REMEDIALLY
In a remedial manner.
INVIGORATE
To give vigor to; to strengthen; to animate; to give life and energy to. Christian graces and virtues they can not be, unless fed, invigorated, and animated by universal charity. Atterbury. Syn. -- To refresh; animate; exhilarate; stimulate.
RESTORATIVE
Of or pertaining to restoration; having power to restore. Destroys life's enemy, Hunger, with sweet restorative delight. Milton.
COMPENSATORY
Serving for compensation; making amends. Jer. Taylor.
REINVIGORATE
To invigorate anew.
DISINVIGORATE
To enervate; to weaken. Sydney Smith.
PREPARATORY
Preparing the way for anything by previous measures of adaptation; antecedent and adapted to what follows; introductory; preparative; as, a preparatory school; a preparatory condition.