fletcherite

plural fletcherites

1. uncountableusuallychemistryAn isometric-hexoctahedral steel gray mineral containing cobalt, copper, nickel, and sulfur.

plural Fletcherites

1. A practitioner of Horace Fletcher's theories, especially regarding the extremely thorough chewing of food.

   The motto of the Fletcherites was “Nature will castigate those who don't masticate.”

   1957, Martin Gardner, Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science, Dover, page 221

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   Now I submit that the Fletcherite bowel, which at its fullest is practically empty, and at its most septic is practically microbe-free, approximates so nearly to the condition of the foetal bowel, that if the absorption of undestroyed trypsin is credible in the one case it is credible in the other.

   1907, Caleb Williams Saleeby, The Conquest of Cancer, F. A. Stokes Company, page 72

   Their contents would have made the weariest Fletcherite drool at the mouth and forget his number of chews.

   1913 September, T. N. Buckingham, “Bob White, Down 't Aberdeen”, in Field and Stream, volume 18, number 5, page 458

   It is fascinating to read that any waste generated out of a Fletcherites body will have no offensive odor, be it the digestion ash (excreta), urine or sweat.

   2012, Shailaja Prashant Kedari, The Simple and Natural Way: ... to Perfect Weight, Radiant Health and Transformed Life, Balboa Press, page 51

   Synonyms: Fletcherist