nutriture

Meanings

nounnutriture (uncountable)

obsoleteuncountablenutrition; nourishment
Never make a meal of flesh alone, have some other meat with it of less nutriture.
1672, Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus, Or, The Anatomy of Consumptions
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The solitary life of Haller in his old age was very triste: the nutriture of his mind lay in the letters of the learned, and in his immense library .
1834, Sir Egerton Brydges, The Autobiography, Times, Opinions, and Contemporaries of Sir Egerton Brydges, page 383
That the prejudice, happily for Britain, much less popular, now, than it was a few years since, which attributes to intoxicating liquors, generally, a pre-eminent nutriture, is a warmly controverted point, the reader need not be told.
1840 March, “On the Nutriture of Intoxicating Liquors”, in The London tee-total magazine, and literary miscellany, volume 1, number 1, page 96
uncountableThe process of digesting and absorbing specified nutrients through diet.
What range of coenzym saturation is indicative of adequate vitamin nutriture?
1982 ·, Lu Ann Langham, Biochemical Assessment of Riboflavin Nutriture Utilizing a Radiometric Assay of Pyridoxamine (pyridoxine) 5'-phosphate Oxidase, page 89
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The program was designed ( a ) to provide evidence concerning the status of iodine nutriture in the United States and the extent of iodine deficiency, ( b ) to examine the efficacy of existing methods of preventing iodine deficiency and, especially, why iodization sometimes fails, ( c ) to explore possible changes in methodology of iodization and ( d ) to determine if there are causes of goiter in the United States other than iodine deficiency.
1971, Iodine Nutriture in the United States
Thus, in any consideration of the iron nutriture of adolescents, biological variability must be taken into account.
1976, Alvin M. Mauer, Iron Nutriture in Adolescence, page 3
A negative association between copper nutriture and fetal growth was found in four studies.
2002, Edward J. Massaro, John M. Rogers, Folate and Human Development, page 228