healthful

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See also that the feet and legs are rendered healthful, and kept so.

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  1. adjective Conducive to good health; salutary.
  2. adjective Healthy. See Usage Note at healthy.

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  • It is not the natural, healthful, artistic feeling, the feeling for the beauty of realities, except in so far as it represents the feeling for the eternal attributes of beautiful form. —  Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made
  • The tone of the book is manly, healthful, and vigorous." —  Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals
  • It is only at the other two meals that they are supposed to be hurtful There is no doubt that warm drinks are healthful, and more agreeable than cold, at certain times and seasons; but it is equally true, that drinks above blood heat are not healthful. —  A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School
  • What a change would be made in the happiness of this Country, if all the pale and delicate young girls should become blooming, healthful, and active, and all the enfeebled and care-worn mothers should be transformed into such fresh, active, healthful, and energetic matrons, as are so frequently found in our mother land It has been stated, that the excessive use of the muscles, as much as their inactivity, tends to weaken them. —  A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School
  • See also that the feet and legs are rendered healthful, and kept so. —  Papers on Health
 

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wholesome ·  temperate ·  refresh ·  manly ·  enjoyable ·  sane ·  genial ·  tranquil ·  congenial ·  salutary ·  exhilarate ·  balmy
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/ˈhɛlθfəl/
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