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healthy, a.|ˈhɛlθɪ|
[f. health n. + -y.]
1. Possessing or enjoying good health; hale or sound (in body), so as to be able to discharge all functions efficiently.
1552Huloet, Healthye or healthfull, incolumis, saluber, salutifer, salutaris, sanus. 1581G. Pettie Guazzo's Civ. Conv. i. (1586) 23 Healthie men..are properly those, who have y⊇ foure humours so equally tempered in them..that one thing exceede not another. 1670Narborough Jrnl. in Acc. Sev. Late Voy. i. (1711) 96 The Spaniards are well-complexioned People..and seem to be mighty healthy. a1715Burnet Own Time II. 535 He is of a very vigorous and healthy constitution. 1815W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 15 My abstinence keeps me quite healthy. 1879G. C. Harlan Eyesight v. 57 Healthy eyes, if given anything like a fair chance, will take care of themselves.
2. a. Conducive to or promoting health; wholesome, salubrious; salutary. Also fig.
1552[see sense 1]. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. i. (1586) 8 b, Best is it..in good and healthy places, to set the house toward the East. a1704Locke (J.), Gardening or husbandry, and working in wood, are fit and healthy recreations for a man of study or business. 1748Wesley Let. conc. Tea in Besant London (1892) 372 A Mixture of Herbs..healthier as well as cheaper than Tea. 1871G. H. Napheys Prev. & Cure Dis. i. v. 135 Healthy dwelling-houses.
fig.1884Chr. World 11 Sept. 682/4 The deep, wide, and healthy influence which he exerted upon society.
b. In ironical use.
1831S. Smith Life & Writings Major J. Downing 149 Major Eaton, it won't be healthy for you to come on to these steps to-night. 1902C. J. C. Hyne Mr. Horrocks Purser 251, I want to impress on them that they'll find it more healthy not to try for more. 1916‘Boyd Cable’ Action Front 179 ‘Additional artillery support would be useful a—a—a.’ ‘Sounds healthy, don't it?’ said the sergeant reflectively.
3. a. Denoting or characteristic of health or sound condition (lit. and fig.); opp. to morbid.
1597Shakes. 2 Hen. IV, i. ii. 4 He said..the water it selfe was a good healthy water. 1709Steele Tatler No. 77 ⁋1 With a fresh, sanguine, and healthy Look. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. 34 The healthy habit of the British constitution. 1878H. M. Stanley Dark Cont. II. vii. 199 An interchange of small gifts served as a healthy augury for the future. 1897Daily News 7 June 9/4 The cutlery trade is in a very healthy state.
b. spec. in Med.: see quots.
1807–26S. Cooper First Lines Surgery 2 By healthy inflammation, is meant that which is not characterized and modified by any particular disease in the part or constitution. 1854Mayne Expos. Lex., Healthy Pus, term applied to pus discharged from abscesses which are the result of phlegmonous inflammation; or from wounds and ulcers in the healing state; formerly termed laudable pus.
4. Comb., as healthy-looking, healthy-minded adjs; healthy-mindedness.
1800Sir M. Hunter Jrnl. (1894) 176 The farmers are healthy-looking. 1851Mayne Reid Scalp Hunt. ii. 17 Displaying healthy-looking, sun-tanned throats. a1882H. James Lit. Remains (1885) 117 In a pluralistic philosophy the healthy-minded moralist will always feel himself at home. Ibid., The feeling of action..makes us turn a deaf ear to the thought of being; and this deafness and insensibility may be said to form an integral part of what in popular phrase is known as ‘healthy-mindedness’. 1886Mrs. C. Praed Miss Jacobsen's Chance I. ii. 33 She was as thoroughly discontented with her own lot as any fairly healthy-minded girl can be. 1906Westm. Gaz. 25 Jan. 12/2 The spirit which animated Japan was chivalry and healthy-mindedness. 1931Times Lit. Suppl. 19 Feb. 122/1 So well supplied is the Victorian era with names standing for stability, sanity and healthy-mindedness.
Add:[3.] c. spec. Of appetite or other propensity: of a size considered indicative of good health (freq. with implication of largeness). Hence (colloq.) more generally, ample, considerable; substantial, sizeable.
1836A. Combe Physiol. Digestion ii. ii. 237 It is no uncommon practice to stint the healthy appetites of the young. 1876[see ordinarily adv. 3]. 1891E. Kinglake Australian at Home 13 A boy of eighteen or twenty has, as a general rule, a healthy fund of sanguineness with which to start on life's journey. 1901G. Griffith Honeymoon in Space 15 It's travelling at a pretty healthy speed too. 1970New Yorker 10 Oct. 172/2 A..commercial outfit that sets up its own tournaments for its stable of players and charges a healthy management fee. 1990Lane & Andrews Malibu 9026S xxxviii. 199 She..found him in the bar pouring a healthy amount of cognac into a snifter. |