Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Aliment; food.

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Examples

  • For alimentum et alitum do coalescere in unum, ‘grow into an union;’ that union is inseperable ever after.

    Archive 2007-08-01 2007

  • Nihil tam nobiscum, tam nostrum, quam alimentum nostrum, ‘nothing so with us, so ours, as that we eat and drink down,’ which goeth, and growth one with us.

    Andrewes: Eucharistic Presence and Incarnation 2007

  • Non laudatur quia melancholicum praebet alimentum.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • For alimentum et alitum do coalescere in unum, ‘grow into an union;’ that union is inseperable ever after.

    Andrewes: Eucharistic Presence and Incarnation 2007

  • For alimentum et alitum do coalescere in unum, ‘grow into an union;’ that union is inseperable ever after...

    Why Should I Even Respond? 2007

  • Ob spirituum distractionem hepar officio suo non fungitur, nec vertit alimentum in sanguinem, ut debeat.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Impura corpora quanto magis nutris, tanto magis laedis: putrefacit enim alimentum vitiosus humor.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Male alit cervina (inquit Frietagius) crassissimum et atribilarium suppeditat alimentum.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Veniant ad me audituri quo esculento, quo item poculento uti debeant, et praeter alimentum ipsum, potumque ventos ipsos docebo, item aeris ambientis temperiem, insuper regiones quas eligere, quas vitare ex usu sit.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • Nihil tam nobiscum, tam nostrum, quam alimentum nostrum, ‘nothing so with us, so ours, as that we eat and drink down,’ which goeth, and growth one with us.

    Archive 2007-08-01 2007

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