Meaning of fletcherite | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A practitioner of Horace Fletcher's theories, especially regarding the extremely thorough chewing of food.
2. An isometric-hexoctahedral steel gray mineral containing cobalt, copper, nickel, and sulfur.
   uncountable, usually

Examples

“Now I submit that the Fletcherite bowel, which at its fullest is practically empty, and at its most septic is practically microbe-free, approximates so nearly to the condition of the foetal bowel, that if the absorption of undestroyed trypsin is credible in the one case it is credible in the other.”

“Their contents would have made the weariest Fletcherite drool at the mouth and forget his number of chews.”

“The motto of the Fletcherites was “Nature will castigate those who don't masticate.””

“It is fascinating to read that any waste generated out of a Fletcherites body will have no offensive odor, be it the digestion ash (excreta), urine or sweat.”

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