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Mothered

Mother \Moth"er\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mothered; p. pr. & vb. n. Mothering.] To adopt as a son or daughter; to perform the duties of a mother to.

The queen, to have put lady Elizabeth besides the crown, would have mothered another body's child.
--Howell.

Mothered

Mothered \Moth"ered\, a. Thick, like mother; viscid.

They oint their naked limbs with mothered oil.
--Dryden.

Wiktionary
mothered
  1. Thick, like mother (film or membrane on fermented liquids); viscid. v

  2. (en-past of: mother)

Usage examples of "mothered".

She ached to hold her son, and grieved anew for Iza, who had taken her in and mothered her, though she had been as different to the Clan as Rydag was to the Lion Camp.

Camilla was my mother, one of the ones who mothered me when I had lost my own mother, when I could not remember her at all.