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Word Meanings - PEDOTROPHY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The art of nourishing children properly.

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  • 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.

 

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