What does innutritive mean?
Innutritive means (archaic) Lacking in nutrition..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
(archaic) Lacking in nutrition..
Others indulge themselves in perpetual reverie. They walk alone in the cloister,—in the garden. They feed themselves with the poison of delicious, innutritive illusion.
The other principle--the innutritive portion--passes from the intestines, and is thus got rid of.
In a cow, subsisting on so innutritive a food as grass, we see that the immense quantity required necessitates an enormous digestive system; that the limbs, small in comparison with the body, are burdened by its weight; that in carrying about this heavy body and digesting this excessive quantity of food, much force is expended; and that, having but little remaining, the creature is sluggish.
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Innutritive means (archaic) Lacking in nutrition..
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Others indulge themselves in perpetual reverie. They walk alone in the cloister,—in the garden. They feed themselves with the poison of delicious, innutritive illusion.
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