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Definition of Nursle
1. Verb. (context: now rare archaic) To nurture, train, raise (up) (a person). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nursle
1. noursle [v NURSLED, NURSLING, NURSLES] - See also: noursle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nursle
Literary usage of Nursle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"To nurse; quasi to nursle. Borne to all wickedness, and nulled in all evil.
Krte Custom, 0. I'l., i, 2M. And nulled once in wicked deeds, ..."
2. Folk-Etymology: A Dictionary of Verbal Corruptions Or Words Perverted in by Abram Smythe Palmer (1882)
"... was originally to nursle ... Perhaps mizzle, to nose, was distinct verb, to
which nursle was la ted. ..."
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