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Definition of Intellectual nourishment

1. Noun. Anything that provides mental stimulus for thinking.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Intellectual Nourishment

Literary usage of Intellectual nourishment

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Letters to the Joneses by Josiah Gilbert Holland (1868)
"I tell you that I have received during these ten years more intellectual nourishment and stimulus from the pulpit than from all other sources combined, ..."

2. Modern Music and Musicians by Louis Charles Elson (1918)
"The musician in search of self-improvement is not the only one to find intellectual nourishment in fields of genius other than his own. The con cert artist, ..."

3. The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient by Léon Vallée, Richard Garnett, Alois Brandl (1899)
"For it is precisely the same with the intellectual nourishment as with the corporeal; scarcely the fiftieth part of what we take is assimilated, ..."

4. Montaigne and education of the judgment by Gabriel Compayré (1908)
"Why, with proper intellectual nourishment, should it not be possible to bridge the interval which exists between their understanding and that of men? ..."

5. The International Library of Famous Literature: Selections from the World's by Richard Garnett, Leon Vallée, Alois Brandl, Donald Grant Mitchell (1899)
"For it is precisely the same with the intellectual nourishment as with the corporeal; scarcely the fiftieth part of what we take is assimilated, ..."

6. An Experiment in Education: Also, the Ideas which Inspired it and Were by Mary Rose (Alling) Aber (1897)
"Comparing the mind to the body, it may be said that intellectual activity alone is no more intellectual nourishment than physical activity is physical ..."

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