Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Performing respiration.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Of or pertaining to respiration.

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to respiration.

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Examples

  • For what in our common apprehension is, to breathe in the air and to breathe it out again, which we do daily: so much is it and no more, at once to breathe out all thy respirative faculty into that common air from whence but lately (as being but from yesterday, and to-day), thou didst first breathe it in, and with it, life.

    Meditations Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius

  • But the same kind of clinical and experimental observations show that alcohol directly diminishes the functional activity of all nerve structures, pre-eminently those of respiration and circulation, and also of all metabolic processes, whether respirative, disintegrative or secretory.

    Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say Martha Meir Allen 1890

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