Category:Starvation

Star*va"tion, n.

Defn: the act of starving, or the state of being starved.

Note: 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.