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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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13 words match “NURTURE”

NURTURE n. 4 definitions
nourishing or nursing; thender care; education; training. A man neither by nature nor by nurture wise. Milton.
ILL-NURTURED a.
Ill-bred. Shak.
MISNURTURE v.
To nurture or train wrongly; as, to misnurture children. Bp. Hall.
BREEDING n.
Nurture; education; formation of manners. She had her breeding at my father's charge. Shak.
CHERISH v.
To treat with tenderness and affection; to nurture with care; to protect and aid. We were gentle among you, even as a nurse cherisheth her children. 1 Thess. ii. 7.
CRADLE n.
ng on rockers or swinginng on pivots; hence, the place of origin, or in which anything is nurtured or protected in the earlier period of existence; as, a cradle of crime; the cradle of liberty. The cradle that received thee at thy birth. Cowper. No sooner was I crept out of my cradle But I was made a king, at nine mont…
FOSTER a.
Relating to nourishment; affording, receiving, or sharing nourishment or nurture; -- applied to father, mother, child, brother, etc., to indicate that the person so called stands in the relation of parent, child, brother, etc., as regards sustenance and nurture, but not by tie of blood. Foster babe, or child, an infant…
MEEK; MEEKEN v.
To make meek; to nurture in gentleness and humility. [Obs.] Chaucer.
MOTHER n.
That which has produced or nurtured anything; source of birth or origin; generatrix. Alas! poor country! ... it can not Be called our mother, but our grave. Shak. I behold ... the solitary majesty of Crete, mother of a religion, it is said, that lived two thousand years. Landor.
NATURE n.
Constitution or quality of mind or character. A born devil, on whose nature Nurture can never stick. Shak. That reverence which is due to a superior nature. Addison. Good nature, Ill nature. see under Good and Ill. -- In a state of nature. (a) Naked as when born; nude. (b) In a condition of sin; unregenerate. (c) Unta…
NORTELRY n.
Nurture; education; culture; bringing up. [Obs.] Nortelry . . . learned at the nunnery. Chaucer.
NOURISH v.
To educate; to instruct; to bring up; to nurture; to promote the growth of in attainments. Chaucer. Nourished up in the words of faith. 1 Tim. iv. 6.
NOURITURE n.
Nurture. [Obs.] Spenser.