(a.) Tending to revive, cheer, or invigorate; giving strength or spirits.
(n.) Anything that comforts, gladdens, and exhilarates.
(n.) Any invigorating and stimulating preparation; as, a peppermint cordial.
(n.) Aromatized and sweetened spirit, used as a beverage; a liqueur.
Example Sentences:
(1) The low pH carbonated drink, coca-cola, and a blackcurrent cordial produced no effects.
(2) As the final whistle blew, Wenger, suddenly wreathed in smiles, hugged his staff, players and even Alan Pardew, a managerial rival with whom he has not always enjoyed the most cordial of technical area relations.
(3) The prime minister arrived in Brussels on Tuesday lunchtime for what was expected to be his final set-piece EU summit before he steps down promising that that UK would remain cordial in the exit talks.
(4) Non-carbonated, low-calorie soft drink concentrates (cordials), when diluted according to manufacturers' instructions, had significant antibacterial effects in vitro.
(5) On the surface, US-South African relations are cordial and have improved since the presidencies of George Bush and Thabo Mbeki, though Washington's intervention in Libya alienated many here.
(6) Naturally contaminated water can be rendered potable by incubation with cordials at room temperature for 1 h. This may be a way to reduce the risk of water-borne diarrhoea, particularly where the cleanliness of drinking waters cannot be otherwise assured, for example when making up oral rehydration fluids and for travellers in high-risk areas.
(7) Yet Clements still has to deal with the Sassenachs down at the ITV network centre on a weekly basis, saying that relationships are "on a professional and personal level very cordial".
(8) Both sides will inevitably stress the friendly, cordial nature of the Downing Street meeting, and Hollande's style is conciliatory and non-confrontational.
(9) The Canadian prime minister, Stephen Harper, who spoke on the phone with Marois in what was described as a "cordial first contact", said he was "angered and saddened" by the shooting.
(10) In the intervening year of can-kicking, you could argue that nothing's changed in terms of the options offered, from Brussels and Frankfurt, to Athens: they are still cordially enjoined to stick with the programme or leave the euro, and that programme is still one that nobody with a real choice would ever vote for.
(11) Cordiality, an easy intimacy with the Brazilian people and the game of football could only get a president so far.
(12) With allegations of cheap practice flying like left hooks around the Olympic boxing tournament, it took an Englishman and an Irishman to settle their legitimate sporting argument with admirable cordiality, Luke Campbell getting the better of John Joe Nevin to win Great Britain's 28th gold medal of the Games.
(13) A toast, marmalade optional, to Colin Firth, who has quit a film version of Paddington with a grace befitting this most cordial of bears.
(14) Coyle is a parliamentary newbie elected only in May, so we might cordially warn him and all those Labour and Conservative MPs who have shrieked about “bullying” that they spent this week in presentational danger of reducing a bombing campaign to what Alfred Hitchcock called a MacGuffin – “a plot device that motivates the characters and advances the story”, but which is often unimportant in itself.
(15) But it shouldn’t be too much to ask for cordial and businesslike relations to be established with Jewish groups.
(16) But it is understood that while Ivanovic appreciated the call, which was cordial, he stopped short of accepting the apology.
(17) After the event Crowley described the discussion as "cordial and positive".
(18) Last month, in a report of Sarkozy's visit to Berlin to discuss the Greek crisis, Der Spiegel wrote: "The welcome will once again appear very cordial… Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel will also work the cameras this time around … a kiss on the left cheek, a peck on the right one, smiles and waving.
(19) Alban said she held "cordial and constructive" talks with the government at the FCO.
(20) But experts say the public enthusiasm masks profound suspicions and even animosity and believe the behind-the-scenes conversations have the potential to be far less cordial.
Effusive
Definition:
(a.) Pouring out; pouring forth freely.
Example Sentences:
(1) BT Sport's marketing manager, Alfredo Garicoche, is more effusive still: "We're not thinking for the next two or three years, we're thinking for the next 20 or 30 years and even longer.
(2) The authors describe a case of expulsive choroidal effusion which occurred in the course of a fistulating operation in a child with Sturge-Weber syndrome.
(3) In all patients a Tenckoff's catheter for peritoneal dialysis was introduced and peritoneal effusion extracted and measured.
(4) Recurrent respiratory infections occurred in 17 (38%), and chronic recurrent middle ear effusions were noted in 33 (73%).
(5) On the seventh day, when middle ear effusions were absent, the ciliary activity had recovered to normal.
(6) Emergency CT showed evidence of pericardial effusion suggesting hemopericardium, enlargement of the ascending aorta and a peripheral semilunar filling defect which caused a slight deformation of the true channel.
(7) Subsequently, the inflammatory reaction diminishes, as can be seen on smears from tympanic effusions.
(8) We report a case of tamponade due to an effusion of blood which had occurred two weeks after an aorto-coronary bypass and was unusually located behind the left atrium.
(9) Control fluids of posttraumatic effusions were negative; among the other controls synovial fluid from 1 psoriatic arthritis patient reacted positively.
(10) In severely affected children who have chronic otitis media with effusion resistant to medical therapy, adenoidectomy is an effective treatment.
(11) The syndrome of ovarian hyperstimulation is an exceptional aetiology of pleural effusion.
(12) Eleven effusions met one or more of three criteria commonly used to identify exudative effusions.
(13) Bacteria present in effusions were identified, and their ability to produce beta-lactamase was also determined.
(14) Her chest roentgenogram showed a moderate amount of pleural effusion in the left pleural cavity without infiltration in the lung fields and no evidence of swollen hilar or mediastinal lymphnodes.
(15) In the case of a massive serous pleural effusion examination of the ingredients leads to diagnosis.
(16) Similarly, the estimation of individual normal serum proteins in effusion fluids is unlikely to be of diagnostic value.
(17) However, separation of the capsule from the bony glenoid can be detected if a joint effusion is present to adequately distend the joint.
(18) A retrospective study was made with the purpose of testing Ultrasound usefulness in differential diagnosis between empyematous and non empyematous evolution of parapneumonic effusions.
(19) Seventy-nine children have been followed with persistent middle ear effusion (MEE).
(20) On the basis of this experience, further investigation of the intrapericardial administration of cisplatin as treatment to control malignant pericardial effusions appears warranted.