单词 | nutritor |
释义 | nutritorn. rare. = nourisher n. 1; (sometimes) spec. a foster-parent, a guardian. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [noun] > nourishing agent nursea1398 nourisher1528 educator1566 nutritor1677 alimenter1714 1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. IV iv. 449 Creator and Vivificator and Nutritor of althings that are under him. 1883 Catholic World June 339 It was the custom of the age that a child destined for high clerical dignity should be entrusted to the care of a nutritor, or guardian. 1984 Amer. Hist. Rev. 89 25 They [sc. abandoned children] were educated or not; well or ill fed;..abused sexually or not—all at the whim of the nutritor. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1677 |
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