aliment

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The pope will then move to a chair to the side of the altar and preside from there, sitting most of the time because of knee aliment that impedes him from standing for too long.

From Reuters • Jan. 4, 2023

It was also linked to about 225 cases worldwide of a fatal human brain aliment known as variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

From Washington Post • Apr. 25, 2012

Food was food, "one universal aliment," a generalized fuel for the body.

From Time Magazine Archive

Satire, more than any other species of poetry, is the offspring of the time in which it has its birth, and which furnishes it with the aliment whereon it feeds.

From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume I by Dunlop, John

Aliment′al, supplying food; Aliment′ary, pertaining to aliment: nutritive.—ns.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various