Word Meanings - PEDOTROPHY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The art of nourishing children properly.
Related words: (words related to PEDOTROPHY)
- PROPERLY
1. In a proper manner; suitably; fitly; strictly; rightly; as, a word properly applied; a dress properly adjusted. Milton. 2. Individually; after one's own manner. Now, harkeneth, how I bare me properly. Chaucer. - NOURISH
1. To feed and cause to grow; to supply with matter which increases bulk or supplies waste, and promotes health; to furnish with nutriment. He planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it. Is. xliv. 14. 2. To support; to maintain. Whiles I in - CHILDREN
pl. of Child. - NOURISHING
Promoting growth; nutritious, - NOURISHER
One who, or that which, nourishes. Milton. - NOURISHMENT
1. The act of nourishing, or the state of being nourished; nutrition. 2. That which serves to nourish; nutriment; food. Learn to seek the nourishment of their souls. Hooker. - NOURISHABLE
1. Capable of being nourished; as, the nourishable parts of the body. Grew. 2. Capable of giving nourishment. Bp. Hall. - NOURISHINGLY
Nutritively; cherishingly. - IMPROPERLY
In an improper manner; not properly; unsuitably; unbecomingly.