单词 | alimentary |
释义 | alimentaryadj.n. A. adj. 1. a. Providing nutrition; nutritious. Also: of or relating to nutrition; nutritional; dietary. Cf. aliment n. 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > qualities of food > [adjective] > nourishing nourishing1340 marrowya1382 nutrimentala1398 feeding1398 marroweda1400 nourishanta1400 nurshing?c1425 nutritivec1450 nutrativec1487 nourishable1496 hearty?1550 battling1555 nurturable1579 alimental1586 nutrible1607 alimentary1608 nutrimentive1610 refective1611 battlesome1627 alible1653 nurturing?a1659 alimentous1659 alimonious1659 polytrophic1659 nutrient1661 nutritious1665 alimentarious1671 foodful1735 nutritionarya1852 nutritional1858 nutraceutical1990 1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 306 Whose alimentary Iuyce and moysture beeing cleane exhausted, they cast out the remaynder, as an vnprofitable burthen, nothing fit for nourishment. 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 30 To restraine the word Humors to the Alimentarie, and not to include the Excrementitious. 1620 T. Venner Via Recta Introd. 8 There are some..waters, not to be allowed for alimentary vses. 1667 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 2 513 The alimentary Juyce passes through the Umbilical vessels. 1709 Brit. Apollo 4–6 May An Alimentary Liquor..doth embody with the Blood. 1746 R. James in Moffett & Bennet's Health's Improvem. (new ed.) Introd. 25 Milk loses..a great deal of its alimentary Virtues, if once boiled. 1821 J. Smyth Pract. of Customs (ed. 2) ii. 29 Arrow Root, produced from a Plant called Maranta, is a farinaceous alimentary root. 1870 G. Rolleston Forms Animal Life 27 Dependent therefore upon ciliary action for the injection of alimentary matter. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 779 There are beetles in the hollow petioles of the Tachygalia trees that have established an alimentary partnership with minute mealy-bugs that share their shelter and yield honey-dew in response to urgent massage. 1989 Freshwater Biol. 22 244/2 The alimentary input..is stored in the hepatopancreas..resulting in the production of macrolecithal eggs. 2008 Developmental Rev. 28 560 During development, expressive and ingestive behaviours are socialized..and the infant may grow to have a differentiated sense of emotional and alimentary needs. b. Designating the organs responsible for the digestion of food and absorption of nutrients; of, relating to, or affecting these organs. Also: of, relating to, or produced by the process of digestion.alimentary canal, alimentary system, alimentary tract: see Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [adjective] > relating to nutrition belly1377 nutritivea1398 alimentative1653 alimentary1730 threptica1832 alimentive1835 nutritory1883 1730 [see alimentary canal n. at Compounds]. 1733 G. Cheyne Eng. Malady ii. viii. 196 The Alimentary Tubes being the first sensible Sufferers in all Bodily Maladies. 1767 Ess. Aliments in A. Shackleford Mod. Art Cookery Improved 269 By digestion in the alimentary duct, the specific difference of all substances is abolished. 1825 Lancet 15 Jan. 57/2 The gastro-intestinal mucous membrane adheres..to the muscular coat of the alimentary tube. 1883 Science 21 Dec. 790/1 The interior of the polyp is mainly occupied by the alimentary apparatus. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) I. xix. 525 From the shape of the fossilized alimentary débris or dung (coprolites) it seems fair to conclude that the ichthyosaurs had a spiral valve like that of sharks. 1997 R. Porter Greatest Benefit to Mankind x. 269 Still prescribed was the bezoar, a concretion found in the alimentary organs of ruminants, recommended as an antidote against poison. 2004 Cat Fancy Mar. 27/1 Lymphosarcoma often is categorized by anatomic location. The five types are mediastinal (involving structures inside the chest), alimentary (digestive system), [etc.]. c. In extended use: of or relating to cooking or eating; culinary. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > [adjective] culinary1651 alimentary1806 culinarious1838 magiric1853 magiristic1892 1806 tr. in Crit. Rev. 3rd Ser. 6 531 The continual attention which the Gourmand is obliged to pay to every branch of the alimentary art [Fr. l'art alimentaire]. 1875 Harper's Mag. Sept. 520/2 It is a civility for people to show an interest in one another's alimentary pleasures. 1941 N.Y. Times Mag. 21 Dec. 14/1 The sexes in this alimentary symposium are equally divided. 1984 Times 7 Apr. 13/2 The covered market is also filled with alimentary delights. 2006 A. Pearson-Evans in M. Byram & A. Feng Living & Studying Abroad iii. 48 The students' cross-cultural adjustment showed parallel changes in their alimentary tastes, and they suddenly found themselves liking Japanese foods they had initially found off-putting. 2. Concerned with the provision of the means of living; providing maintenance. Cf. aliment n. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > supply > [adjective] > connected with or providing maintenance or support sublevaminous1661 alimentary1681 supporting1856 sustenant1874 1681 J. Dalrymple Inst. Law Scotl. i. iv. 34 Alimentary Provisions, in case of necessary Separation, are so personal to the Wife, that inhaerent ossibus, and recur not to the Husband or his Creditors. 1738 E. Chambers Cycl. (ed. 2) (at cited word) Alimentary Law was an old law among the Romans, whereby children were obliged to find sustenance for their parents. 1799 tr. F. D'Ivernois Hist. & Polit. Surv. Losses French Nation iv. 149 It was thought but just to promise them in return an alimentary pension of a few sous per day for their maintenance. 1831 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 45 423 An alimentary pension from his family. 1875 C. Merivale Gen. Hist. Rome lxv. 524 Supplying the necessities of the Italians by alimentary endowments. 1913 Act 3 & 4 George V c. 20 § 98 (2) Where the bankrupt is in right of an alimentary provision. 1975 Amer. Jrnl. Compar. Law 23 43 Social security..should not face competition from alimentary obligations between family members. 1999 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 31 July 20 Although there will be no alimentary provision, my husband will transfer to me £150,000 of UK-quoted shares. 3. Roman History. Designating a child receiving maintenance from the emperor. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > [adjective] > poor > poor and receiving relief relieved1618 eleemosynary1654 alimentary1728 tax-eating1817 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Trajan was the first that brought up any of these Alimentary Boys. 1889 M. Thorpe tr. C. Schmidt Social Results of Early Christianity (ed. 2) iii. iv. 396 Marcus Aurelius, on the occasion of his daughter's marriage with Lucius Verus, endowed a number of alimentary children of both sexes. 1960 Trans. & Proc. Amer. Philol. Assoc. 91 68 Alexander Severus established a special group of alimentary boys and girls on the model set by Antoninus Pius and Marcus Aurelius. 1990 Papers of Brit. School at Rome 58 222 Severus Alexander celebrated his victory over the Persians with a magnificent triumph, games, largesse and the foundation of orders of alimentary boys and girls. B. n. ΚΠ 1617 J. Minsheu Ἡγεμὼν είς τὰς γλῶσσας: Ductor in Linguas An Alimentarie, he to whom a man giveth his meat and drinke by his last will. 1886 R. Brown Hist. Paisley II. xviii. 379 In 1878, £89 was paid to alimentaries. 2. The digestive system; the alimentary tract. Also in plural in same sense. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > [noun] the sink(s) of the body1615 alimentary canal1730 alimentary tract1798 enteron1839 alimentary1851 foodway1904 1851 in W. Burke Mineral Springs of Virginia xviii. 273 The irritability of the alimentary was so great, that the smallest portions of calomel or blue pill, combined with opiates, would produce an hypercatharsis, sometimes almost fatal. 1887 Q. Jrnl. Microsc. Sci. 27 348 The cavity of the alimentary is formed by the invagination of the endoderm described in the first section of this article. 1909 Mazdaznan Encycl. Dietetics & Home Cook Bk. (ed. 5) 6 Such minerals that are absolutely necessary to promote peristaltic action, assuring proper flushing of the system, giving zest and vigor to the alimentaries. 1989 S. Kumar et al. in Fruit Flies of Econ. Importance 87 271 The flies to be sacrificed were starved for 24 hrs to clear the alimentary of any dietary contents and then fed on water. 2012 Courier Mail (Austral.) (Nexis) 9 Apr. 19 Too much of a good thing can play havoc with your alimentaries, as they say—don't want to get egg-bound. Compounds alimentary canal n. = alimentary tract n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > [noun] the sink(s) of the body1615 alimentary canal1730 alimentary tract1798 enteron1839 alimentary1851 foodway1904 1730 Philos. Trans. 1729–30 (Royal Soc.) 36 270 The End of a whitish tender Vessel, which thence proceeded strait to the Beginning of the alimentary Canal. 1875 tr. E. O. Schmidt Doctr. Descent & Darwinism ix. 206 Their adaptation to life within other animals has rendered the alimentary canal superfluous. 1946 H. Woods Palæontol. Invertebr. (ed. 8) 117 In the majority of cases the alimentary canal terminates in an anus. 2001 L. Rennison Knocked out by Nunga-nungas 130 I can do a magnificent impression of a bolus of food being passed along the alimentary canal. alimentary system n. the digestive system. ΚΠ 1746 in tr. H. Boerhaave Acad. Lect. Theory Physic VI. 18 (note) But even if a Passage is given to the confined Matter, the whole alimentary System is so convulsed, as to occasion a most profuse Discharge of the Bile, Saliva, and pancreatic Juice. 1886 Bot. Gaz. 11 281 But heretofore vegetable substances have not become animalized, as far as known, save through the laboratory of the alimentary system. 1939 T. L. Green Pract. Animal Biol. i. 68 Make a drawing of the alimentary system and its glands. 2001 E. Aughery & F. L. Frye Compar. Vet. Histol. viii. 119/1 Generally, the alimentary system of the lower vertebrates is similar to that found in mammals. alimentary tract n. the digestive or gastrointestinal tract. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > [noun] the sink(s) of the body1615 alimentary canal1730 alimentary tract1798 enteron1839 alimentary1851 foodway1904 1798 Ann. Med. 1797 2 viii. 293 The symptoms which most commonly attend worms in certain situations of the alimentary tract. 1835 J. Forbes et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. IV. 195/2 But, it may be asked, does the detection of a poison in, let us suppose, the alimentary tract, demonstrate that the individual died of the consequences of its action? 1987 E. W. Burr Compan. Bird Med. xxv. 172/2 The endoscope can be used to clearly visualize structures in the oral cavity and upper alimentary tract. 2002 G. M. Eberhart Mysterious Creatures I. 4/2 The larvae are large, transparent spheres with arborescently branched, ciliated feeding bands and a U-shaped alimentary tract. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.n.1608 |
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