Meaning of innutritive | Babel Free

Definitions

Lacking in nutrition.

archaic

Examples

“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.”

“The other principle--the innutritive portion--passes from the intestines, and is thus got rid⟳ of.”

“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.”

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