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salubrious, a.|səˈl(j)uːbrɪəs|
[f. L. salūbri-s (f. salū-s health) + -ous.]
Favourable or conducive to health. a. Of food, medicine, etc. Now rare.
1547Boorde Brev. Health 121 b, I myghte here shewe of many salubriouse medecines. 1667J. Flavel Saint Indeed (1754) 121 The Unicorn's horn..in the Apothecaries shop, where it is made salubrious or medicinal. 1709W. King Art of Love viii. 1065 Give the salubrious draughts with your own hand; Persuasion has the force of a command. 1748Anson's Voy. ii. viii. 220 A species of food so very palatable and salubrious as turtle. 1842A. Combe Physiol. Digestion (ed. 4) 341 The more slowly they [ices] are eaten, the more refreshing and salubrious will they become. 1871G. H. Napheys Prev. & Cure Dis. i. ii. 68 Fish. In the hot months all kinds are less salubrious than in cold weather.
b. Of air, climate, places, etc.
1615G. Sandys Trav. 8 The forraine merchants here [Zacynthus] resident..by their frequent deaths do disprove the aire to be so salubrious as is reported. 1774Pennant Tour Scotl. in 1772, 175 In summer the air is remarkably salubrious. 1807G. Chalmers Caledonia I. i. iv. 164 The Roman officers seem to have had many villas along its salubrious shore. 1833H. Martineau Berkeley the Banker i. i. 3 Foreseeing the possibility of his having four or five Masters Cavendish as boarders in his salubrious..establishment. 1875Browning Inn Album 2 Hail calm acclivity, salubrious spot!
c. Of an occupation. rare.
1675Worlidge Syst. Agric. xii. (ed. 2) 253 Angling; a moderate, innocent, salubrious, and delightful exercise.
d. Of physiological processes: = salutary.
1855Ramsbotham Obstetr. Med. 70 The salubrious change which the fœtal blood undergoes, is accomplished in the placental mass.
e. transf. and fig.
1659Hammond On Ps. xcvii. 485 Dispensed by the divine providence for many salubrious and beneficial ends. 1737Thomson To Mem. Ld. Talbot 147 In Senates, He to Freedom firm, Enlighten'd Freedom, plann'd salubrious Laws. a1780H. Blair Serm. II. 31 If that fountain [the heart] be once poisoned, you can never expect that salubrious streams will flow from it. 1809Campbell Gertr. Wyom. i. ix, And dwells in day-light truth's salubrious skies No form with which the soul may sympathise? 1855Landor Imag. Conv., A. Pollio & L. Calvus ii. Wks. 1876 II. 443 Religions, like the sun, take their course from east to west: traversing the globe, they are not all equally temperate, equally salubrious: they dry up some lands, and inundate others.
Hence saˈlubriously adv.; saˈlubriousness.
1677W. Hubbard Narrative 1 In the..salubriousness of the Air..most resembling the Country from whence it borrowed its appellation. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. 238 Does not the sweat of the mason and carpenter..flow as pleasantly and as salubriously, in the construction and repair of the majestic edifices of religion, as in the painted booths and sordid sties of vice and luxury. 1888Schaff's Encycl. Relig. Knowl. 1391 The salubriousness of their climate. |