Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
nurture .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Nurture.
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- noun Obsolete form of
nurture .
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Examples
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Mais on n'avoit point de vivres, et l'on ne voioit rien dans tout le pais qui put servir de nouriture.
Narrative of a Survey of the Intertropical and Western Coasts of Australia Performed between the years 1818 and 1822 — Volume 1 Phillip Parker King
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Prop. come desia Susdit; pour ce qui est du transport et nouriture de ma Colonie iusques en Caroline la Reine l'a gratifié et 30 shellings pour habits a chaque psne gros et petits.
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After these words they took their refection or food of nouriture divine, and soon after returned together unto the city of Meaux.
The Golden Legend, vol. 7 1230-1298 1900
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And I tell you, it's one of the things witches can do, to take the good out of food, if they've an eye to it; they can take every bit of nouriture out of it that's in it.
A Dozen Ways Of Love Lily Dougall 1890
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I have such lamentable proofs every day before my eyes of the stupefying qualities of beef, ale, and wine, that I have contracted a most religious veneration for your spiritual nouriture.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 Horace Walpole 1757
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Cette nouriture n'est guère bonne que pour des Grecs, ou quand on n'a rien de mieux.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III Richard Hakluyt 1584
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(notwithstanding the fathers seede, and creation of the bodie and mynde, within the mothers wombe) doth nowe in the beginning of his nouriture, configurate and frame a newe disposition in him.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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Cette nouriture n’est gu鑢e bonne que pour des Grecs, ou quand on n’a rien de mieux.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Commissaires de la 5e seiscion dite de la liberté nommé par le citoyen de Baris (Paris) pour faire les visite de l'argenteri ché les citoyens de la liste fait par les citoyens Diot et Bailly et Jaquin savoir depence du 13 et 14 et 15 Frimaire pour leur nouriture du troyes jour monte à 24 fr.] [Footnote 3396: Albert Babeau, II.,
The French Revolution - Volume 3 Hippolyte Taine 1860
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