† nutrateObs.rare. = nutrative b. The form may orig. be due to copying from a French text which had nutratis for nutratifs. 1548–77Vicary Anat. viii. (1888) 62 The Midriffe was ordeyned..[to] diuide the spirituals from the nutrates.Ibid., The malicious fumes reared vp from the nutrates.