nourishing

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nourishing - 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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  Nourishing \Nour"ish*ing\, a.
     Promoting growth; nutritious.
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nourishing - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  nourishing
      adj 1: of or providing nourishment; "good nourishing stew" [syn:
             alimentary, alimental, nourishing, nutrient,
             nutritious, nutritive]

nourishing - 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