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~Mostly Daily Vocab Expander~ ~Pabulum~ \PAB-yuh-luhm\ noun 1. material for intellectual nourishment. 2. something that nourishes an animal or vegetable organism; food; nutriment. Quotes He had two papers to provide for; papers diverse in character, papers published a hundred and fifty miles apart, papers to which expectant thousands looked for their weekly supply of mental pabulum. -- James Parton, The Life of Horace Greeley, 1868 Origin Pabulum is dervied from the Latin verb pāscere meaning to feed. The suffix -bulum is used in formation of instrumental nouns. Pabulum entered English in the mid-1600s.
Posted on: Thu, 27 Nov 2014 01:46:54 +0000

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