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Definition of Insalubrious

1. Adjective. Detrimental to health.

Definition of Insalubrious

1. a. Not salubrious or healthful; unwholesome; as, an insalubrious air or climate.

Definition of Insalubrious

1. Adjective. unhealthful, not providing or promoting health ¹

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Definition of Insalubrious

1. [adj]

Medical Definition of Insalubrious

1. Unwholesome; unhealthful; usually in reference to climate. Origin: L. In-salubris, unwholesome (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Insalubrious

Literary usage of Insalubrious

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1. A Systematic Treatise, Historical, Etiological, and Practical, on the by Daniel Drake (1854)
"... in certain winters, large numbers die of pneumonia, engrafted on constitutions, enfeebled and deranged, by the insalubrious air of the previous autumn. ..."

2. European Settlements on the West Coast of Africa: With Remarks on the Slave by J. F. Napier Hewett (1862)
"... INCURABLY insalubrious. —DESERT BLASTS.—PRODUCE OF THE COUNTRY. AT a certain time in the year the merchants quit Bathurst and ascend the river to ..."

3. Universal Biography: Containing a Copious Account, Critical and Historical ...by John Lemprière by John Lemprière (1810)
"Jordano by the ! account of the insalubrious air of the place. excellence and the variety of his pieces, j In 1746 lie was made afternoon preacher to «hieb ..."

4. A Concise History of the Commencement, Progress and Present Condition of the by Samuel Wilkeson (1839)
"... thus exposed in an insalubrious situation, several were again attacked by intermittent fever, from which they had but a few months before recovered at ..."

5. Hydraulia, an Historical and Descriptive Account of the Water Works of by William Matthews (1835)
"Absurd notions of its being insalubrious. Imputation of monopoly to the Water Companies unjust The conduct of the Grand Junction Company with regard to ..."

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