nutrication
English edit
Etymology edit
From Latin nutricatio, from nutricare, nutricari (“to suckle, nourish”), from nutrix (“a nurse”).
Noun edit
nutrication
- (obsolete) The act or manner of feeding.
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
- Beside the remarkable teeth, the tongue of this animal is a second argument to overthrow this airy nutrication
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “nutrication”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)