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Pabulum

noun
1.
Any substance that can be used as food.  Synonyms: comestible, eatable, edible, victual, victuals.
2.
Insipid intellectual nourishment.






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"Pabulum" Quotes from Famous Books



... whom, as a bookseller, learning is under considerable obligations.' Beloe, in his 'Sexagenarian,' states that at Tom Payne's and at Peter Elmsley's, in the Strand, 'a wandering scholar in search of pabulum might be almost certain of meeting Cracherode, George Steevens, Malone, Wyndham, Lord Stormont, Sir John Hawkins, Lord Spencer, Porson, Burney, Thomas Grenville, Wakefield, Dean Dampier, King of Mansfield Street, Towneley, Colonel Stanley,' and others. Savage ...
— The Book-Hunter in London - Historical and Other Studies of Collectors and Collecting • William Roberts



Words linked to "Pabulum" :   tuck, edible, nutrient, food, food for thought, intellectual nourishment, eatable



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