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adjective

Healthful adj.

Full of health; free from illness or disease; well; whole; sound; healthy; as, a healthful body or mind; a healthful plant.

Serving to promote health of body or mind; wholesome; salubrious; salutary; as, a healthful air, diet. "The healthful Spirit of thy grace."

Indicating, characterized by, or resulting from, health or soundness; as, a healthful condition. "A mind... healthful and so well-proportioned."

Well-disposed; favorable. (R.) "Gave healthful welcome to their shipwrecked guests."

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Etymology of 'Healthful'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Healthful" Quotes from Famous Books

... more healthful exercise for the mind in the uneven paths of middling life, than there is on the Macadamized road of fortune. Were the year all summer, how tiresome would be the green leaves and the bright sunshine—as, indeed, those will admit, who have lived in climates ...

— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Vol. XVII. No. 469. Saturday January 1, 1831 • Various

... a great degree, that those efforts of the human mind are most healthful and vigorous, in which the possessor of talents "administers to himself," and contends with the ...

— Thoughts on Man - His Nature, Productions and Discoveries, Interspersed with - Some Particulars Respecting the Author • William Godwin

... grew up under the care of her aunt Isabel, that good old lady of monkish urbanity whom we met at the beginning of the story. For the most part, her early life was spent in San Diego, on account of its healthful climate, and there Padre Damaso was devoted ...

— The Social Cancer - A Complete English Version of Noli Me Tangere • Jose Rizal

... indestructible element of the human constitution. Its first manifestations bear even date with the earliest displays of intelligence and affection. To the infant, approval is reward; rebuke, even by look, is punishment. The hope of esteem is the most healthful and effective stimulant in the difficult tasks of childhood and of school-life. Under the discipline of parents both wise and good, it is among the most important and salutary means of moral discipline. It is seldom deficient ...

— A Manual of Moral Philosophy • Andrew Preston Peabody

... officers serving with troops shall do their utmost to encourage healthful exercises and physical recreation and to supply opportunities for cleanly social and interesting mental occupations for the men under ...

— Military Instructors Manual • James P. Cole and Oliver Schoonmaker

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