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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Nuritur(e, -tour, n. Also: nour(r)i-, nourre-. [e.m.E. nurryture (1548), nurriture, nourriture, nouryture (470–85), nouriture (Caxton), nouritour (1581), noryture (1527), ME. noriture (Chaucer), OF. noureture, norreture etc. (mod. F. nourriture). Cf. Nurtur(e and Nutriture.]
1. Nourishment. a.That which nourishes, sustenance, food. lit. and fig.(1) 1494 Loutfut MS. 28 b.
Bot quhen he tuk his nourretour [v.r. nourritour] & boissone [etc.] 1589 Gray Lett. & P. 175.
Able to finde sufficient nouritour to the feu nomber nov inhabiting yt 1632 Lithgow Trav. 165.
The Turkes … consume the wealth of the people they overcome, leaving them destitute of nuriture(2) 1581 Burne in Cath. Tr. (S.T.S.) 134/7.
Defraudit of the vord of lyf and treu fude and nuriture of thair saulis 1600 Hamilton Facile Tr. in Cath. Tr. (S.T.S.) 227/15.
In the whilk is the nouriture of lichurie
b. The process or fact of nourishing.1639 Sc. Ant. III. 132.
All delectable to the use and nouriture of man
2. Upbringing, tutelage; also, ‘breeding.’ = Nurture n.(1) 1570 Warrender P. (S.H.S.) I. 85.
He wes born of a Scotis woman within the cuntre and resavit thairin nuriture a greit pairt of his aage 1577 Reg. Privy C. II. 634.
Tuicheing the nuriture and governament of his majesteis maist nobill persoun 1578–9 Ib. III. 112.
His hienes hes remanit … under the nuriture of umquhile Johnne, Erll of Mar 1591 James VI in Cal. Sc. P. X. 605.
Being certified of so full concurse of nature and nouriture 1593–4 Mar & Kellie MSS. 40.
Nuritur(2) a1605 Montg. Misc. P. xviii. 1.
proverb As natur passis nuriture Of natur all things hes a strynd a1628 Carmichael Prov. No. 1206.
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