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Definition of Inanitions
1. inanition [n] - See also: inanition
Lexicographical Neighbors of Inanitions
Literary usage of Inanitions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Lang's German-English Dictionary of Terms Used in Medicine and the Allied by Hugo Lang, Milton Kayton Meyers (1913)
"inanitions-delirium, «. delirium of starvation Infarkt, ... treatment by fasting
inanitions-star, tn. cataract due to inanition ..."
2. The Republic of Plato by Plato, Benjamin Jowett (1908)
"Look at the matter thus :—Hunger, thirst, and the like, are inanitions of the
bodily state ? ... And ignorance and folly are inanitions of the soul? True. ..."
3. Dialogues of Plato by Plato (1899)
"Look at the matter thus: Hunger, thirst, and the like, are inanitions of the
bodily state ? Yes. ... and folly are inanitions of the soul ? True. ..."
4. The Republic of Plato: An Ideal Commonwealth by Plato, William Cranston Lawton (1901)
"And ignorance and folly are inanitions of the soul? True. And food and wisdom
are the corresponding satisfactions of either? Certainly. ..."
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