STARVATION
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V25,
Page 799
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
STARVATION
, the See also:state of being deprived of the essentials of See also:nutrition, particularly of See also:food, the suffering of the extremities of See also:hunger and also of See also:cold (see HUNGER AND THIRST)
.
The word is an invented hybrid, attributed, according to the accepted See also:story, to See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry Dundas, 1st See also:Viscount See also:Melville, who used it in a See also:parliamentary debate on See also:American matters in 1775 and gained thereby the See also:nickname of " Starvation Dundas " (see H
.
See also:Walpole's
Letters, ed
.
See also:Cunningham, viii
.
3o; and Notes and Queries
no
.
225)
.
The See also:English word " to starve " meant originally
" to See also:die," as in O
.
Eng. steorfan, Du. sterven, Ger
.
'sterben, but was particularly applied to See also:death from hunger or cold
.
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