Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An early spelling of
wholesome .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Wholesome.
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- adjective Obsolete form of
wholesome .
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Examples
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The angler 'schall have hys holsom walke and mery at hys owne ease, and also many a sweyt eayr of divers erbis and flowres that schall make hym ryght hongre and well disposed in hys body.
Introduction to the Compleat Angler Andrew Lang 1878
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[Sidenote: Butter is wholesome in youth and old age, anti-poisonous, and aperient.] buttir is an holsom mete/furst and eke last, [26]
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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Mameny, [225] mylke of almond {es}, Rice rennyng {e} liquyte, -- 828 þese potages ar holsom for þem þat hañ delite
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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Gyng {er} valadyne & maydelyñ ar not so holsom in mete.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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¶ Yo_u_r hond_is_ wasshe; yt ys an holsom thyng; yo_u_r naylis loke they be not gety blake, 44
Caxton's Book of Curtesye Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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Turnesole [39] is good & holsom for red wyne colowryng {e}: all {e} þese ingredyent {es}, þey ar for ypocras makyng {e}.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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So w {i} t {h} suche diet as is holsom he may length {e} his life.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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Solea is the sole, that is a swete fisshe and holsom for seke people.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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Gynger colombyne is the best gynger, mayken and balandyne be not so good nor holsom .... now thou knowist the propertees of Ypocras.
The Forme of Cury A Roll of Ancient English Cookery Compiled, about A.D. 1390 Samuel Pegge 1750
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Of suche as nedys wyll contynue in theyr foly nat withstandynge holsom erudicion.
The Ship of Fools, Volume 1 Sebastian Brant 1489
chained_bear commented on the word holsom
"Holsom, is a term applied to a ship that rides without rolling or labouring."
—Falconer's New Universal Dictionary of the Marine (1816), 197
October 14, 2008