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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 799 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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STARVATION , the See also:

state of being deprived of the essentials of See also:nutrition, particularly of See also:food, the suffering of the extremities of See also:hunger and also of See also:cold (see HUNGER AND THIRST). The word is an invented hybrid, attributed, according to the accepted See also:story, to See also:Henry Dundas, 1st See also:Viscount See also:Melville, who used it in a See also:parliamentary debate on See also:American matters in 1775 and gained thereby the See also:nickname of " Starvation Dundas " (see H. See also:Walpole's Letters, ed. See also:Cunningham, viii. 3o; and Notes and Queries no. 225). The See also:English word " to starve " meant originally " to See also:die," as in O. Eng. steorfan, Du. sterven, Ger. 'sterben, but was particularly applied to See also:death from hunger or cold.

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