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alimentation

[al-uh-men-tay-shuhn] / ˌæl ə mɛnˈteɪ ʃən /


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Life was only a matter of intake and alimentation and reproduction.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers

In ten thousand years, two hundred thousand millions of human bodies have been formed by means of respiration and alimentation from the earth and atmosphere, and have returned to them again.

From The Universe a Vast Electric Organism by George Woodward Warder

They are answered that the excessive leanness of the extremities among those nations which subsist principally on vegetable diet, or whose alimentation is imperfect, is not at all surprising; and this reply is certainly valid.

From The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races With Particular Reference to Their Respective Influence in the Civil and Political History of Mankind by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur

In the case of consumptives very great attention should be paid to ventilation, and to the alimentation both of the patient and the attendants.

From Health, Happiness, and Longevity Health without medicine: happiness without money: the result, longevity by Louis Philippe McCarty

In the alimentation of armies scientific principles must not be disregarded.

From Martyria or Andersonville Prison by Augustus C. Hamlin


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