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▪ I. nurture, n.|ˈnɜːtjʊə(r)|
Forms: 4–6 nortour(e, -tur(e, 5–6 norter; 5–7 nourtoure, 6–7 -ture; 4– nurture (5 Sc. nwr-), 5–6 -tur, -tour(e.
[a. OF. nourture, nurture, var. of noure-, nourriture: see nouriture.]
1. Breeding, upbringing, training, education (received or possessed by one). Now rare.
c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 4295 Vs wondreþ at ȝowre nurture of pris. a1366Chaucer Rom. Rose 179 Ful foule and cherlysshe semed she,..And litel coude of norture. 1422tr. Secreta Secret., Priv. Priv. 122 He was of hey nourtoure, wel prowed and I-lernyd of al Sciencis. 1470–85Malory Arthur viii. iii. 276 He sente yonge Trystram.. in to Fraunce to lerne the langage and nurture and dedes of armes. a1533Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel. (1546) C iij b, His father in his youthe had taught him good nurture. 1573Tusser Husb. (1878) 26 The greatest preferment that childe we can giue, is learning and nurture, to traine him to liue. 1607Statute in Hist. Wakefield School (1892) 60 The general course of Religion and good nurture in the scollers of this schole. 1644Milton Educ. 3 To drive our dullest and laziest youth..from the infinite desire of such a happy nurture.
1813Scott Rokeby vi. xv, He bred him in their nurture wild. 1867Parkman Jesuits in N. Amer. ix. (1875) 99 Both were of noble birth and gentle nurture.
†b. Moral training or discipline. Obs.
1526Tindale Eph. vi. 4 Brynge them uppe with the norter and informacion off the Lorde. 1535Coverdale Ecclus. xviii. Contents, God suffreth longe, rebuketh and teacheth all soch as wil receaue nurtoure. 1611Bible Wisd. iii. 11 Who so despiseth wisedome, and nurture, he is miserable. 1637Rutherford Lett. (1862) I. xcviii. 251 Yet I get my meat from Christ with nurture.
2. That which nourishes; nourishment, food.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xix. xxxii. (Bodl. MS.), Swetnes is þe propre sauour & norture ȝif it is stedefaste..in þe membres. c1407Lydg. Reson & Sens. 1630 Iuno..bisyly dide hir cure To yive him mylke to hys norture. 1596Spenser Hymn Hon. Love 39 Your lovers feeble eyes you feed, But sterve their harts that needeth nourture most. 1671Milton Samson 362 For this did the Angel twice descend? for this Ordain'd thy nurture holy, as of a Plant? 1818Byron Ch. Har. iv. cxlix, Where..from the heart we took Our first and sweetest nurture. 1880Blackmore Mary Anerley xl, He fed him well, and nourished himself, and took nurture for the road.
Comb.1777Potter æschylus 319 These crisped locks, Once sacred to the nurture-giving stream Of Inachus.
3. The bringing-up or rearing of some one; tutelage; fostering care.
1676W. Allen Addr. Nonconf. 44 Whom God put under the nurture of believing Parents, or Tutors. 1727Pope, etc. Art of Sinking xvi, That to prevent unmarried Actresses making away with their Infants, a competent Provision be allowed for the Nurture of them. c1775Burke Addr. Colonists N. Amer. Wks. IX. 213 Under the paternal care and nurture of a protecting Parliament. 1784Cowper Task ii. 779 Things so sacred as a nation's trust, The nurture of her youth, her dearest pledge. 1818Cruise Digest (ed. 2) III. 372 If guardian by nurture make a lease by indenture to one, being under the title of the infant. 1875Manning Mission H. Ghost ix. 230 Even in the lower animals there is a certain love, and care, a nurture in the parent towards its offspring.
▪ II. nurture, v.|ˈnɜːtjʊə(r)|
Also 5, 7 norture, 5–6 nurtur (6 -ter, -tor, -tour), 6–7 nourture (6 -ter, -toure).
[f. prec.]
1. trans. To feed or nourish; to support and bring up to maturity; to rear. Also fig. (cf. 2).
c1430Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 41 But also pleyne was his bedde at the morwe, As at even so was he nortured wele. c1440Alph. Tales 437 He knew it & had compassion þeroff, & garte name it & nurtur it. c1450Lovelich Grail xxxv. 216 His Eldest sone..was put into thike partye For to Norture. 1575Turberv. Trag. Tales (1837) 161 By his Grandsyre nourisht up And nurtred from a boye. 1715Bentley Serm. (J.), They suppose mother earth to be a great animal, and to have nurtured up her young offspring with a conscious tenderness. 1815Shelley Alastor 68 By solemn vision, and bright silver dream, His infancy was nurtured. 1828Lytton Disowned iii, The woman who nurtured me as my mother was rather capricious than kind. 1872O. W. Holmes Poet Breakf.-t. viii, He was not nurtured by the best of mothers.
refl.c15111st Eng. Bk. Amer. Introd. (Arb.) 32/2 All the other byrdes..gyue them mete & drinke to the tyme that the[y] can flee & nurter them selfe. 1820Shelley Œd. Tyr. i. 356 That very Rat, who, like the Pontic tyrant, Nurtures himself on poison.
b. transf. To foster, cherish.
1828Macaulay Ess., Hallam (1851) I. 57 Sprung from brutal passion, nurtured by selfish policy, the Reformation in England [etc.]. 1847H. Miller Test. Rocks iii. (1857) 115 It has been said that they nurture infidel propensities. 1872Black Adv. Phaeton xxi. 298 The Lieutenant began to nurture a secret affection for Scotland.
2. To bring up, train, educate.
1526Tindale Titus ii. 4 That they nurter the yonge wemen for to love their husbandes. 1579J. Northbrooke Dicing (1843) 11 A child..In tender yeares brought vp In vertues schoole, and nurtred wel. 1639Rouse Heav. Univ. viii. (1702) 106 He will delight to teach and nurture thee. 1652Bp. Hall Eloquence p. xiv, We ought to nurture our souls to greatnesse. 1774Burke Sp. Amer. Tax. Wks. 1842 I. 164 Persons who are nurtured in office do admirably well as long as things go on in their common order. 1784Cowper Task ii. 532 My man of morals, nurtur'd in the shades Of Academus—is this false or true? 1817Shelley Rev. Islam i. xxxvii, Before A woman's heart beat in my virgin breast, It had been nurtured in divinest lore. 1863Geo. Eliot Romola i. xi, He had been nurtured in contempt for the tales of priests.
†b. To discipline, chasten. Obs.
1528Tindale Doctr. Treat. (Parker Soc.) 136 God laid him where he could neither see sun nor moon.., to nurture him,..and to teach him God's ways. 1535Coverdale 1 Kings xii. 11. a 1564 Becon Commpl. H. Script. Wks. II. iii. 93 They verely for a fewe daies nurtred vs after their own pleasure; But he nurtreth vs for our profit. 1609Bible (Douay) Prov. xiii. 24 He that spareth the rod, hateth his childe; but he that loveth him doth instantly nurture him. 1636Rutherford Lett. (1862) I. lxx. 182 You have had your own large share of troubles..; but it saith your Father counteth you not a bastard; full-begotten bairns are nurtured.
†c. To wean (one) from something. Obs. rare—1.
1621Sanderson Serm. I. 172 As a fatherly correction and chastisement, to nurture us from some past sin. |
