nutritial
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English
[edit]Adjective
[edit]nutritial (comparative more nutritial, superlative most nutritial)
- (obsolete) Pertaining to, or connected with, nutrition; nutritional.
- c. 1618, George Chapman, Hymns of Homer, Book 11:
- Diana praise , Muse , that in darts delights ,
Lives still a maid , and had nutritial rights
With her born - brother , the far - shooting Sun.
References
[edit]- “nutritial”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.