alimentallyadv.

1606 H. Clapham Man. Bibles Doctr. 67 Then it was lawfull to arise, kill, and eat, alimentally & phisically.

1633 T. Adams Comm. 2 Peter (i. 6) 131 Drinke..serveth Alimentally for the bodies strength.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 85 The substance of gold is invincible..not only alimentally in a substantiall mutation, but also medicamentally in any corporeall conversion. View more context for this quotation

1867 Brit. & Foreign Medico-chirurg. Rev. 39 330 Chlorine..should be administered alimentally—to coin a word for the occasion—in the form of the milk of cows, asses, or goats.

1971 Atherosclerosis 13 99 Linoleic acid..as an essential fatty acid, cannot be synthetized, but must rather be supplied alimentally.

1994 G. T. Houston Consuming Fictions i. 9 While one half of the Victorian population starved, the other half..was ‘disgustedly overfed’. Alimentally, then, as Dickens wrote in A Tale of Two Cities, it was ‘the best of times’ and ‘the worst of times’.

2003 R. Palley Call Anc. Mariner 103 Meat, which is alimentally egregious even on land, is the chief of the class of rotting foods to avoid.