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nutriment|ˈnjuːtrɪmənt|
[ad. L. nūtrīment-um, f. nūtrīre to nourish: see -ment. So F. nutriment, It. and Sp. nutri-, nudrimento.]
1. That which nourishes; food, nourishment; nourishing food.
1541Elyot Cast. Helthe 38 b, Than must be withdrawen and minished some parte of that nutriment. 1558Bp. Watson Sev. Sacram. vii. 36 Our dayly and special nutrimentes of breade and wyne. a1610Healey Cebes (1636) 134 Now hee..purgeth away the causes and nutriment of the maladie. 1667Milton P.L. v. 496 From these corporal nutriments perhaps Your bodies may at last turn all to Spirit. 1724–5Swift Rec. to restore Stella's Youth, The Nutriment will from within Round all your Body plump your Skin. 1795Burke On Scarcity Wks. VII. 384 It is impossible that he should continue that abundant nutriment. 1855Bain Senses & Int. i. ii. §24 The action of the nutriment supplied to the body.
b. Without article.
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts (1658) 358 All hard things which are dissolved with difficulty, do retain their force of nutriment longer. 1667Milton P.L. vii. 408 Or in thir Pearlie shells at ease, attend Moist nutriment. 1751Johnson Rambler No. 85 ⁋5 Observing the proportion between nutriment and labour, and keeping the body in a healthy state. 1821Byron Sardan. i. ii, They banqueted upon your gods, And died for lack of further nutriment. 1881Mivart Cat 22 It..both helps to keep the body warm and serves as a store of nutriment.
c. In figurative applications.
1612Rowlands Knave of Harts (Hunterian Cl.) 29, I feede on euils, they are my nutriment. 1624Gataker Transubst. 160 The bread and wine themselves are signes of spirituall nutriment, not nutrition. 1726Swift Stella's Birthday, Is not Virtue in Mankind The Nutriment, that feeds the Mind? 1791Cowper Four Ages 36 Myst'ries are food for angels; they digest With ease, and find them nutriment. 1849Robertson Serm. Ser. i. ii. (1866) 22 In the soil of the heart is found all the nutriment of spiritual life. 1873Dixon Two Queens i. i. I. 2 To feel that Homer and Thucydides might yield them richer nutriment than any of their Lives of Saints.
†2. The act of nourishing or fostering. Obs.—1
1535Cromwell in Merriman Life & Lett. (1902) I. 437 The contynuance and nutryment of discorde and trouble amonge the kings subiectts. |