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First published 1971 (DOST Vol. IV).
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Nutri-, Nutryment, n. [e.m.E. nutryment (1535), nutriment (1541), F. nutriment, L. nūtrīment-um, f. nūtrīre v. to nourish.] a. That which nourishes; food, nutriment; (1) plur., (2) sing. without article. b. The nourishing part of anything. c. Upbringing, nurture. —a. (1) 1456 Hay II. 129/17.
Quhat ever a man les of his blude … the vertuous sesone, with gude nutrimentis and governementis, restoris naturaly all agayne a1500 Colk. Sow iii. 22.
The fors of the four elementis, And most the erth, mynisteris it nvtrimentis To incressing as herbis stone or tre(2) 1490 Irland Mir. I. 65/8.
Bot the wyt and ressone of man had schawin him quhen he suld haue tane nutriment 1592 Acts III. 614/1.
The solane geis … hantis in the ile of the Bas and hes thair nestis and nutriment thairinb. 1682 Lauder Observes App. iv. 304.
All his … chowing of it was only … to separat the concomitant nutrimentc. a1500 Bk. Chess 431.
And quhar a cok of ȝoung birdis also Has nocht the cur in his nutryment [etc.]