Star*va"tion (?), n. The act of
starving, or the state of being starved.
&fist; This word was first used, according to Horace Walpole, by
Henry Dundas, the first Lord Melville, in a speech on American affairs
in 1775, which obtained for him the nickname of Starvation
Dundas.
"Starvation, we are also told, belongs to the class of
'vile compounds' from being a mongrel; as if English were not full of
mongrels, and if it would not be in distressing straits without them."
Fitzed. Hall.
Star*va"tion (?), n. The act of
starving, or the state of being starved.
&fist; This word was first used, according to Horace Walpole, by
Henry Dundas, the first Lord Melville, in a speech on American affairs
in 1775, which obtained for him the nickname of Starvation
Dundas.
"Starvation, we are also told, belongs to the class of
'vile compounds' from being a mongrel; as if English were not full of
mongrels, and if it would not be in distressing straits without them."
Fitzed. Hall.
