单词 | unnutritive |
释义 | unnutritiveadj. Not nutritive. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > qualities of food > [adjective] > nourishing > not mistrum?c1225 leanc1325 weak1382 hungry1561 excremental1576 unnourishable1590 low1603 excrementitial1620 heartless1620 excrementitious1623 inalimental1626 sustenanceless1630 lifeless1633 excrementious1636 oligotrophic1659 meagre1663 unnutritive1700 innutritious1796 unnutritious1821 innutrient1822 unalimentary1822 unnourishing1826 innutritive1844 foodless1916 1700 C. Leigh Nat. Hist. Lancs. ii. ii. 67 Whatever is ingested..enters the Mass of Blood, and is there by the Saline Particles precipitated into Thick, and unnutritive Humours. 1782 T. Pownall Treat. Study Antiq. 3 An unnutritive mass of learning may create and indulge a false appetite, but never can feed the mind. 1829 T. Carlyle in Foreign Rev. Jan. 96 Germans, who..have in fact nothing else to live on but that highly unnutritive victual. 1878 Pall Mall Gaz. 8 Feb. 10/1 It is tasteless, indigestible, and unnutritive. 1916 Harper's Mag. Dec. 58/1 Our grandmothers stitched flannel garments, which would now be deemed unsanitary; and made beef-tea, which would now be called unnutritive. 1977 Lawton (Okla.) Constit. 1 Aug. 6/6 Their housing is ramshackle, their streets neglected, their squalor joyless, their food unnutritive junk. 2005 Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Nov. 9/2 Without European civilization, Koch reminds us, there would be no place for delights that are artificial, unnutritive, ‘modern’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1700 |
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