a. Obs.–0 App. only a Dictionary word, originating in an erroneous adaptation (after nutritious) of med.L. connūtrītus, rendering συντεθραμμένος having been nourished together, used by Hippocrates in conjunction with ἐμπεφυκώς having been inborn, congenitus, congenital. (The regular meaning of connutritious, if in use, would be ‘conjointly nutritious’: cf. the amended explanations of Craig and Smart.)
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Connutritious (connutritus), that hath the same nourishment, or bringing up.
1730–6. Bailey (folio), Connutritious is that which becomes habitual to a Person from his particular Nourishment, or … had its first Aliments from sucking a distempered Nurse, etc.
1846. Smart, Supp., Connutritious, nutritious by the force of habit.
1847. Craig, Connutricious, nourishing together.
