Obs. rare. [f. FOSTER v. + -MENT.] Food, nourishment, subsistence.

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1593.  Nashe, Christ’s T., 33 b. She had no other refuge of fosterment, she was constrained (for her liues supportance), hauing but one onely sonne, to kill him and rost him.

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1623.  in Cockeram.

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