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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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