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alimentation|ˌælɪmənˈteɪʃən|
[ad. med.L. alimentātiōn-em, n. of action f. alimentā-re: see aliment v.]
1. The action or process of affording aliment; nourishment, nutrition.
1656Blount Glossogr., Alimentation, nourishment, or that causeth or breeds nourishment. 1753Chambers Cycl. Supp., Alimentation is used, by some naturalists, for what we more ordinarily call nutrition. 1849–52Todd Cycl. Anat. & Phys. IV. 1203/2 The tentacula of the Bryozoa..are subservient to the purposes of alimentation. 1872Huxley Physiol. i. 15 The organs which convert food into nutriment are the organs of alimentation.
2. The process of being nourished, the mode in which any one is nourished.
1605Bacon Adv. Learn. (1640) 170 A man that..hath thoroughly observed the nature of Assimilation and of Alimentation. 1626― Sylva §602 Plants do nourish: inanimate bodies do not; they have an Accretion, but no Alimentation. 1830Lyell Princ. Geol. (1875) II. iii. xliii. 477 That climate..social condition, alimentation, and mode of life may have determined originally the diversity of races.
3. The supplying with the necessaries of life; maintenance, support.
1590Swinburn Testaments 201 As if he did bequeath it vnto hir for hir alimentation. 1850Merivale Rom. Emp. (1865) VIII. lxvi. 193 The alimentation of poor children..was extended or increased by fresh endowments. |