Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Nurture

Nurture , noun

[Old English norture, noriture, Old French norriture, norreture, French nourriture, from Latin nutritura a nursing, suckling. See Nourish.]

1.
The act of nourishing or nursing; tender care; education; training.
A man neither by nature nor by nurture wise. — Milton
2.
That which nourishes; food; diet. — Spenser

Nurture , transitive verb

1.
To feed; to nourish.
2.
To educate; to bring or train up.
He was nurtured where he had been born. — Sir H. Wotton