2. Adjective. overweight ¹
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Definition of Overnourished
1. overnourish [v] - See also: overnourish
Lexicographical Neighbors of Overnourished
Literary usage of Overnourished
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Alcohol, the Sanction for Its Use: Scientifically Established and Populary by J. Starke (1907)
"... less important how long the " alcohol as such " circulates in their bodies
than in those of the overnourished moderate drinkers in better circumstances. ..."
2. Progressive Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1906)
"In its essence it is an autointoxication, and it usually occurs in overnourished
infants. Observation justifies this latter conclusion; most cases of ..."
3. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"It is also the best form of self-expression and its advantage is variability,
following the impulsion of the idle, perhaps hyperemic, and overnourished ..."
4. Popular Science Monthly (1904)
"... by the unhealthy thickening of tissues, only too common, occurring about the
waist line from lymphatic stasis in those otherwise not overnourished. ..."
5. Montaigne by Tetel, Marcel (1903)
"With the increased blood supply the glands are overnourished and their functions
are increased. Theil- haber has very frequently seen a hypersécrétion in ..."
6. Life and Correspondence of Theodore Parker: Minister of the Twenty-eighth by John Weiss (1864)
"... but the functional man in good condition, every part of the nature exhibiting
an irreproachable digestion, and no part overnourished. ..."
7. The New York Times Current History (1917)
"ilK German stomach is an imperious organ, very jealous of its economic rights,
very touchy, accustomed to be overnourished. ..."
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