The Meaning of Vegetarian

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Dec 14, 1904

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 30, No. 49.

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The Meaning of Vegetarian

“Vegetarian” does not come from a word meaning root, but from vegetus, meaning “lively.” See Standard Dictionary. Usually it is supposed to come from vegetables. Yet the vegetable food, of the vegetarian—fruit, grains, vegetables, and nuts, are full of the life needed for the physical man.