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ˈnurtured, ppl. a.
[f. prec. + -ed1.]
Trained, educated. Chiefly in evil-nurtured, ill-nurtured, well-nurtured.
a1400–50Alexander 3177 A ix score of new geere of nurtrid maydens. c1475Babees Bk. 119 Als to the worlde better [boon] in noo degre Mihte yee desire thanne nurtred forto be. 1599George-a-Greene Greene's Wks. (Grosart) 1229 Nay, good my Liege, ill nurtur'd we were, then. 1611Bible Ecclus. xxii. 3 An euill nurtured sonne is the dishonour of his father. Ibid. xxxi. 19 A very litle is sufficient for a man well nurtured. 1612Dekker If it be not Good Wks. 1873 II. 281 How dar'st thou mock vs, thou ill nurtur'd slaue? 1781Cowper Table-T. 634 A well-nurtur'd train Of abler votaries. 1854G. Greenwood Haps & Mishaps 60 Revealing the..hell of ferocity in their blood-nurtured natures. 1887Murray's Mag. I. 558 His India-nurtured blood felt comforted by the warmth. |