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† nourice, n. Obs.
Forms: α. 3, 6–7 nurice (6 -rice), 4 -yse, 5–6 -ys, 6 Sc. -is(s, 5 -ess, 6 Sc. -eis, nwreis. β. 3–6 norice, 4 -iche, 4–6 -yce, 4 -isse, 4–6 -ise, 4–5 -yse, 5 -ys(s(e, -e(i)s. γ. 4, 6– nourice, 5–6 -yce, -ysse, 6 -ise; 4 nowrise, -ys; 8 nooriss.
[a. OF. nurice, -isce, nor(r)ice, noriche, nour(r)ice, = Prov. noir-, nuirissa, Catal. nudrissa, Sp. nod-, nudriza:—late L. nūtrīcia, fem. of nūtrīcius, f. nūtrīc-em, nūtrix, f. nūtrīre to nourish. L. nūtrīcem is represented by lt. nut-, not-, nud-, nodrice, Sp. nut-, nodriz. Cf. nourish n. and nurse n.]
A nurse. Also attrib. in nourice-fee, nourice-milk.
αa1225Ancr. R. 82 Heo makeð of hire tunge cradel to þes deofles bearn, & rockeð hit ȝeorneliche ase nurice. c1230Hali Meid. 37 Þah þu riche beo, & nurice habbe. c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xxvii. (Machor) 47 He tuk þe child hym til, & gat a nuryse gud in hy. 1440Alph. Tales 216 He tuke ane offrand hym selfe and gaff vnto þer nuress. 1515Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. V. 10 Bocht..for my lord duke's nurys, to be hir ane goune. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. ii. 146 Eder..be the ingine and the industrie of his nurice was preseruet. c1620A. Hume Brit. Tongue (1865) 19 Nurice, from nutrix, quhilk the south calles nurse, not without a falt both in sound and symbol.
βc1290St. Lucy 61 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 102 He wende to seinte lucies norice. 1340Ayenb. 60 Þe blonderes byeþ þe dyeules noriches, þet his children yeueþ zouke. 1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) III. 449 Þis Clitus his suster was Alisaundre his norise. 1413Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton, 1483) v. iii. 93 That blysful lady Mary was very moder and noryce of Ihesu goddes sone. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 44/2 Thenne they lete her goo and her noryce wyth her. 1541Elyot Cast. Helthe ii. xxv. 40 b, Their noryces shall perceyve what dygesteth welle. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 196 By meane of a false Norice, he was stollen out of his Cradell.
γc1375Sc. Leg. Saints xxvi. (Nicholas) 40 Na one fryday bot anys wald he þe nowrys suk. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 251/2 One named Concordia Nouryce of Ypolyte answerd for them alle. 1530Palsgr. 577/2 She is worthy to be a nouryce, she can handell a chylde dayntely. 1599Jas. I Basilikon Doron (1603) 45 Drinking in with their very nouris-milke that their honor stood in committing three points of iniquitie. 1600Holland Livy iii. xlviii. 120 To enquire of her nourice the truth of this matter. 1768Ross Helenore (1812) 68 Then sud she gae frae head to foot in silk; Wi' castings rare, and a gueed nooriss-fee, To nurse the king of Elfin's heir.
b. In figurative uses.
βc1386Chaucer Pars. T. ⁋874 Slepyng long in grete quyete is eke a grete Norice to lecherie. c1412Hoccleve De Reg. Princ. 4813 Loue is norice of welþe and of gladnesse. a1548Hall Chron., Edw. IV 245 b, The not deliuery of the same should be the norice and continuer of warre and hostilitie. 1550J. Coke Eng. & Fr. Herald. §1 (1877) 55 Idlenes, norise of vyces.
γ1502Ord. Crysten Men (W. de W. 1506) ii. v. 92 Charyte is..moder and nouryce and y⊇ lyght of these other vertues. 1576Gascoigne Steele Gl. (Arb.) 60 Gold, which is..The neast of strife, and nourice of debate. 1609Holland Amm. Marcell. xx. viii. 156 But putting aside flatterie, the very nourice of vices, set your mind upon iustice. 1612Selden Illustr. Drayton's Poly-olb. A iij b, That most learned Nourice of Antiquitie..Mr. Camden.
Hence † ˈnourice v., to nurse. † ˈnouriceship, the office of a nurse. Obs.
1588Greene Perimedes H j b, The Syren Venus nourist in hir lap Faire Adon. 1818Scott Br. Lamm. iii, ‘What is her connection with the former proprietor's family?’ ‘O, it was something of a nourice-ship, I believe’. |