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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Nutriture, -our, n. [e.m.E. nutriture (1557), med. L. nutritura.] Upbringing, tutelage. —1567 Reg. Privy C. I. 515.
That na thing requisite for his [the infant prince's] nutriture, custody, intertenement and preservatioun salbe foryot 1573 Acts III. 81/2.
[The King] sall remane … under the nutriture of … the Countesse of Mar his governant as towart his mowth and ordering of his persoun 1578 Ib. 106/2.
In the nutritour and vpbringing of his maiestie sen his hienes birth 1579 Ib. 175/2, 188/1. 1600 Ib. IV. 243/2.
Hir bipast seruice and performing the nutriture & preseruatioun of his maiesteis awin persone
