1.
[syn: alimentary, alimental, nourishing, nutrient, nutritious, nutritive]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Nourish \Nour"ish\ (n[u^]r"[i^]sh), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
Nourished (n[u^]r"[i^]sht); p. pr. & vb. n. Nourishing.]
[OE. norisen, norischen, OF. nurir, nurrir, norir, F.
nourrir, fr. L. nutrire. Cf. Nurse, Nutriment, and see
-ish.]
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1. To feed and cause to grow; to supply with matter which
increases bulk or supplies waste, and promotes health; to
furnish with nutriment.
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He planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it.
--Is. xliv.
14.
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2. To support; to maintain.
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Whiles I in Ireland nourish a mighty band. --Shak.
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3. To supply the means of support and increase to; to
encourage; to foster; as, to nourish rebellion; to nourish
the virtues. "Nourish their contentions." --Hooker.
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4. To cherish; to comfort.
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Ye have nourished your hearts. --James v. 5.
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5. To educate; to instruct; to bring up; to nurture; to
promote the growth of in attainments. --Chaucer.
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Nourished up in the words of faith. --1 Tim. iv.
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Syn: To cherish; feed; supply. See Nurture.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Nourishing \Nour"ish*ing\, a.
Promoting growth; nutritious.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
nourishing
adj 1: of or providing nourishment; "good nourishing stew" [syn:
alimentary, alimental, nourishing, nutrient,
nutritious, nutritive]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
42 Moby Thesaurus words for "nourishing":
alimental, alimentary, assimilable, cannibal, cannibalistic,
carnivorous, commensal, dietetic, digestible, dining, eating,
feeding, flesh-eating, fruitarian, gastronomic, gluttonous,
grain-eating, graminivorous, granivorous, grass-eating,
herbivorous, insect-eating, insectivorous, lactovegetarian,
man-eating, meat-eating, mensal, nutrient, nutritious, nutritive,
omnivorous, omophagous, pantophagous, phytivorous, phytophagous,
plant-eating, postprandial, prandial, predacious, preprandial,
vegetable-eating, vegetarian