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Synonyms for pabulum

Grammar : Noun
Spell : pab-yuh-luh m
Phonetic Transcription : ˈpæb yə ləm

Définition of pabulum

Origin :
  • "food" for anything, 1670s, from Latin pabulum "fodder, food, nourishment," from PIE root *pa- "to protect, feed" (see food) + instrumentive suffix *-dhlom.
  • Pablum (1932), derived from this, is a trademark (Mead Johnson & Co.) for a soft, bland cereal used as a food for infants and weak and invalid people, hence figurative use (attested from 1970, first by U.S. Vice President Spiro Agnew) in reference to "mushy" political prose.
  • noun nourishment
Example sentences :
  • Pabulum is nothing without a preëxisting "something" to dispose of it.
  • Extract from : « Life: Its True Genesis » by R. W. Wright
  • If they do not, no pabulum ever after, will their indurated tissues assimilate.
  • Extract from : « The Book of Khalid » by Ameen Rihani
  • The grove gave them wood; the stream, water; the plain, pabulum for their horses.
  • Extract from : « The War Trail » by Mayne Reid
  • Inflammable matter may be considered as the pabulum of life.
  • Extract from : « Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) » by James Hutton
  • It offered no pabulum to the wrongdoer in the form of compensation for stolen humanity.
  • Extract from : « The Abolitionists » by John F. Hume
  • It also provides the pabulum for the caterpillar of the Holly-blue butterfly (Lycæna argiolus).
  • Extract from : « Wayside and Woodland Trees » by Edward Step
  • They mean that the public is to be given up, not as a heathen land for conversion, but simply as a pabulum for experiment.
  • Extract from : « Eugenics and Other Evils » by G. K. Chesterton
  • It fairly slobbered with the froth of sensation—lived on scandal, and obtained its pabulum by any and every means.
  • Extract from : « The Case and Exceptions » by Frederick Trevor Hill
  • Being aware that she was a woman of culture his desire was simply to supply her with the pabulum that she would expect.
  • Extract from : « The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II) » by Henry James
  • Bearcroft the classic observed to him, that learning was pabulum animi, food of the mind.
  • Extract from : « The Punster's Pocket-book » by Charles Molloy Westmacott

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