NUTRI'TION, noun [Latin , to nourish.] 1. The act or process of promoting the growth or repairing the waste of animal bodies; the act or process of promoting growth in vegetables. 2. That which nourishes; nutriment. Fixed like a plant on his peculiar spot, to draw nutrition propagate, and rot. There is no nutrition in ardent spirits.
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