norice

English

Noun

norice (plural norices)

1. Obsolete form of nurse.

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:norice.

References

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “norice”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Cerino, Coiner, coiner, orcein, orcine, recoin

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• noryse, norys, norse, nurse, nurishe, norische, norrice, noryce, noris, norysshe

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French norrice, from Latin nūtrīcius.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈnuris(ə)/, /ˈnuriʃ(ə)/, /ˈnɔris(ə)/, /ˈnuriːs(ə)/, /ˈnur(ə)s(ə)/

Noun

norice (plural norices or norice)

1. A woman employed to take care of one's children or babies; a nanny.
   1. One employed to breastfeed a child; a wet-nurse.
   2. (rare, Christianity) Mary as the caretaker and guardian of Jesus.
2. An idea, behaviour or a proponent or proponents of an idea or behaviour that supports something.
   • 1394, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Parson's Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales‎^[1]:

     Slepynge longe in greet quiete is eek a greet norice to Leccherie

     Sleeping long in great quietness is a great nurse to Lechery as well.

3. A man employed to take care of one's children and educate them.
4. An animal or plant which rears or raises its offspring.
5. (rare) Nourishment, rearing, raising.
6. (rare) One who provides religious sustenance; a proponent of doctrines.
7. (rare) One who is one's guardianship.

Related terms

• norserye

Descendants

• English: nurse, nourice
• Scots: nourice, nuirice

References

• “norī̆ce (n.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-15.