English Dictionary

pabulum

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈpabjʊləm/

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞 比喩的用法

Food or fodder, particularly that taken in by plants or animals. / Material that feeds a fire. / (figuratively) Food for thought. / (figuratively) Bland intellectual fare; an undemanding diet of words.

日本語の意味

（動植物が摂取する）食物、飼料 / 火を燃やすための燃料 / （比喩的に）考えるための糧、知識のエサ / （比喩的に）淡白で味気ない知的内容、退屈な言葉

The veterinarian examined the pabulum that the farmer provided to the rescued foal.

獣医は、農夫が保護した子馬に与えた飼料を調べた。

意味（1）

Food or fodder, particularly that taken in by plants or animals.

Having for many years considered oil as the great pabulum of plants, I was much hurt by the result of some experiments, which state oil as poison; and turning this in my thoughts a thousand times over, it at last occurred to me, that though oil, as oil in its crude state, might act as a poison, yet it might be so changed as to convey it with great advantage to the soil, […]

意味（2）

Material that feeds a fire.

[…] But when we find that they [volcanoes] are but few in Number, and the chiefeſt of thoſe too near the torrid Zone, and from their Tops to iſſue forth, now clear Fire, then thick, black Smoke, and ſometimes little or nothing at all; we muſt conclude, that they are only particular Fires, probably of the Sun’s kindling at firſt, and ſince continued by the caſual and incidental Applications of that Pabulum, which thoſe Part of the Earth adminiſter to them.

意味（3）

(figuratively) Food for thought.

To comfort the desponding parent with the thought that, without diminishing the stock which is imperiously demanded to furnish the more pressing and homely wants of our nature, he has disposed of one or more perhap out of a numerous offspring, under the shelter of a care scarce less tender than the paternal, where not only their bodily cravings shall be supplied, but that mental pabulum is also dispensed, which He hath declared to be no less necessary to our sustenance, who said, that not by bread alone man can live; for this Christ's Hospital unfolds her bounty.

意味（4）

(figuratively) Bland intellectual fare; an undemanding diet of words.

At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy ; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.

pabula （ plural ）

pabulums （ plural ）