healthsome
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]healthsome (comparative more healthsome, superlative most healthsome)
- (archaic) Conducive to good health.
- 1544, Peter Betham (translator), The Preceptes of Warre by Jacopo di Porcia, London, Book 1, Section 192 “To kepe thyne armye healthfull,”[1]
- The health of thyne Armye is mayntayned by exercyse, by healthsome countrie and swete ayers: but chefelye where is plentye and abundaunce of vytayles.
- c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene iii]:
- Shall I not, then, be stifled in the vault,
To whose foul mouth no healthsome air breathes in,
- 1886, George Gissing, chapter 2, in Demos[2], volume 2, London: Smith, Elder & Co., page 54:
- A breeze from the north-west chased the blood to healthsome leaping, and caught the breath like an unexpected kiss.
- 1894, Revised Version of the Bible, The Wisdom of Solomon 1:14,[3]
- For he created all things that they might have being:
- And the generative powers of the world are healthsome,
- And there is no poison of destruction in them:
- Nor hath Hades royal dominion upon earth,
- 1982, Roald Dahl, “The Bloodbottler”, in The BFG[4], Puffin, published 2013:
- ‘It is not healthsome always to be eating meaty things.’
- 1544, Peter Betham (translator), The Preceptes of Warre by Jacopo di Porcia, London, Book 1, Section 192 “To kepe thyne armye healthfull,”[1]