Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a nutritive manner; nutritiously; nourishingly.

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  • adverb Concerning, or in terms of, nutrition.

Etymologies

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nutritive +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • On the part of the soul, Christ showed (2.2.1) that he was living nutritively, by eating and drinking; (2.2.2) that he was living sensitively, by interacting with his disciples; and (2.2.3) that he was living rationally, by discoursing on the Scriptures and teaching the disciplies.

    Archive 2005-03-01 2005

  • On the part of the soul, Christ showed (2.2.1) that he was living nutritively, by eating and drinking; (2.2.2) that he was living sensitively, by interacting with his disciples; and (2.2.3) that he was living rationally, by discoursing on the Scriptures and teaching the disciplies.

    Plantinga and Hegel and the Glorious Resurrection 2005

  • The real you has been nutritively dispersed throughout the five-space range of my being.

    In Other Worlds Attanasio, A. A. 1984

  • He came to London one day years ago (from Paris, where he had been eating nutritively of the tree of artistic knowledge), in order to re-embark on the morrow for the

    Picture and Text 1893 Henry James 1879

  • The authors reviewed 165 papers in English that cited a 2004 study by James et al, and 41 that cited a 2006 study by Ebbeling et al, both of which focused on the effects of nutritively sweetened soft drink consumption on obesity.

    FoodNavigator-USA RSS 2009

  • They also claimed that there is a publication bias toward those studies that show statistically significant associations between nutritively sweetened beverages and obesity.

    FoodNavigator-USA RSS 2009

  • Obesity research is skewed by bias, particularly when reporting the effects of nutritively-sweetened drink consumption, claims a study published in the

    FoodNavigator-USA RSS 2009

  • The authors reviewed 165 papers in English that cited a 2004 study by James et al, and 41 that cited a 2006 study by Ebbeling et al, both of which focused on the effects of nutritively sweetened soft drink consumption on obesity.

    FoodNavigator-USA RSS 2009

  • They also claimed that there is a publication bias toward those studies that show statistically significant associations between nutritively sweetened beverages and obesity.

    FoodNavigator-USA RSS 2009

  • Obesity research is skewed by bias, particularly when reporting the effects of nutritively-sweetened drink consumption, claims a study published in the

    FoodNavigator-USA RSS 2009

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