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▪ I. ˈfostering, vbl. n.
[f. foster v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the vb. foster in various senses.
c1230Hali Meid. 33 Jn his fostrenge forð. c1400Rom. Rose 6113 In Gile & in Ipocrisie, That me engendred & yaf fostryng. 1447O. Bokenham Seyntys Introd. (Roxb.), Of Seynt Margrete..The byrthe, the fostryng and how she cam Fyrst to the feyth. 1548Hall Chron., Edw. IV (an. 13) 225 b, For the long mainteinyng, and fosteryng of Quene Margarete, and her soonne Prince Edwarde. 1885Athenæum 3 Oct. 441/2 The withdrawal of such official and quasi-official fostering as architecture already has.
b. = fosterage 2. Obs. exc. Hist.
1596Spenser State Irel. Wks. (Globe) 638/1 The chiefest cause of the bringing in of the Irish language, amongest them, was specially theyr fostring, and marrying with the Irish. 1612Davies Why Ireland, etc. (1787) 135 In the opinion of this [the Irish] people fostering hath always been a stronger alliance than blood. 1827Hallam Const. Hist. (1876) III. xviii. 354 The English settlers..connected themselves with them [Irish] by the national custom of fostering.
2. concr. Food, nourishment, sustenance.
c1386Chaucer Sompn. T. 137, I am a man of litel sustenaunce. My spirit hath his fostring in the Bible.
▪ II. fostering, ppl. a.|ˈfɒstərɪŋ|
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That fosters, in senses of the verb.
1568T. Howell Arb. Amitie (1879) 35 The fethred foule..his fostring foode, with chirping bill he peckes. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. i. 9 Bacchus and fost'ring Ceres, Pow'rs Divine. 1764Goldsm. Trav. 368 Thou transitory flower, alike undone By proud contempt, or favour's fostering sun. 1795Burns To Cunningham 4 The furrow'd, waving corn is seen Rejoice in fostering showers. 1840Macaulay Ranke's Hist. Ess. 1851 II. 145 Edinburgh has owed less to..the fostering care of rulers.
Hence ˈfosteringly adv.
1838Carlyle Misc. (1857) IV. 205 Sheltered and fosteringly embowered. |