nutrication
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin nutricatio, from nutricare, nutricari (“to suckle, nourish”), from nutrix (“a nurse”).
Noun
editnutrication
- (obsolete) feeding or nourishment
- 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
References
edit- “nutrication”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.