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Healthful

Health′ful

(-fụl)
,
Adj.
1.
Full of health; free from illness or disease; well; whole; sound; healthy;
as, a
healthful
body or mind; a
healthful
plant.
2.
Serving to promote health of body or mind; wholesome; salubrious; salutary;
as, a
healthful
air, diet
.
The
healthful
Spirit of thy grace.
Book of Common Prayer.
3.
Indicating, characterized by, or resulting from, health or soundness;
as, a
healthful
condition
.
A mind . . .
healthful
and so well-proportioned.
Macaulay.
4.
Well-disposed; favorable.
[R.]
Gave
healthful
welcome to their shipwrecked guests.
Shakespeare

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