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  • verb archaic Third-person singular simple present indicative form of nourish.

Etymologies

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nourish + -eth

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Examples

  • For while the juices would nourisheth me, the fruit is too cumbersome and unwieldy to biteth.

    What's Going On Mark Steel 2009

  • How many trees earth nourisheth of the dry and of the green

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Commonwealth, and goes round about, nourishing, as it passeth, every part thereof; in so much as this concoction is, as it were, the sanguification of the Commonwealth: for natural blood is in like manner made of the fruits of the earth; and, circulating, nourisheth by the way every member of the body of man.

    Leviathan 2007

  • But if she expose it, and another find and nourish it, dominion is in him that nourisheth it.

    Leviathan 2007

  • For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:

    Probably Just One Of Those Funny Coincidences 2006

  • For no man ever yet hated his own flesh; but nourisheth and cherisheth it, even as the Lord the church:

    Villaraigosa And Nunez Cut And Run - Video Report 2006

  • It is shaped, sir, like itself; and it is as broad as it hath breadth: it is just so high as it is, and moves with its own organs: it lives by that which nourisheth it; and the elements once out of it, it transmigrates.

    The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra 2004

  • Pythagoras, that seed is the sediment of that which nourisheth us, the froth of the purest blood, of the same nature of the blood and marrow of our bodies.

    Essays and Miscellanies 2004

  • And the air that nourisheth and preserves all other things is destructive to them, as if their production and life were unnecessary and against Nature; nor should we wonder that they think animals bred in the sea to be disagreeable to their bodies, and not fit to mix with their blood and spirits, since when they meet a pilot they will not speak to him, because he gets his living by the sea.

    Essays and Miscellanies 2004

  • And the air that nourisheth and preserves all other things is destructive to them, as if their production and life were unnecessary and against Nature; nor should we wonder that they think animals bred in the sea to be disagreeable to their bodies, and not fit to mix with their blood and spirits, since when they meet a pilot they will not speak to him, because he gets his living by the sea.

    Symposiacs 2004

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