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innutritive en · ADJ

Etymology

From in- + nutritive.

Meanings

1. (archaic) Lacking in nutrition.
   • The other principle--the innutritive portion--passes from the intestines, and is thus got rid of. 1859-1861, Mrs. Isabella Beeton, The Book of Household Management:
   • Others indulge themselves in perpetual reverie. They walk alone in the cloister,—in the garden. They feed themselves with the poison of delicious, innutritive illusion. 1820, [Charles Robert Maturin], Melmoth the Wanderer: A Tale. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] Archibald Constable and Company, and Hurst, Robinson, and Co., […], →OCLC, page 302:
   • In a cow, subsisting on so innutritive a food as grass, we see that the immense quantity required necessitates an enormous digestive system; that the limbs, small in comparison with the body, are burdened by its weight; that in carrying about this heavy body and digesting this excessive quantity of food, much force is expended; and that, having but little remaining, the creature is sluggish. 1903, Herbert Spencer, Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects:

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