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Definition of Nursed
1. Adjective. (of an infant) breast-fed.
Definition of Nursed
1. Verb. (past of nurse) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nursed
1. nurse [v] - See also: nurse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nursed
Literary usage of Nursed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"As two young lions by their dam are nursed High mid a mountain's summits in the
glens Of a deep forest, but anon descend Harrying fat sheep and oxen, ..."
2. The Complete Poetical Works of Sir Walter Scott by Walter Scott (1900)
"And peaceful nursed her new-born child. JO change accursed ! past are those days ;
False Murray's ruthless spoilers came, And, for the hearth's domestic ..."
3. Southern History of the War by Edward Alfred Pollard (1865)
"Ideas nursed in "Free Schools."—Yankee Materialism.—How it has Developed in the
War.—Yankee Falsehoods and Yankee Cruelties.—His Commercial Politics. ..."
4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"... church of freely to others; especially to the sick-poor whom she nursed.
It was about the time that she became a Franciscan tertiary that the ..."