alimentation

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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

Very nutritive and very digestible food should be chosen for a singer, and a mixed alimentation should be employed.

From The Voice Its Production, Care and Preservation by Miller, Frank E.

The mode of administration will be specially referred to under the head of alimentation.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

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 Warder, George Woodward

By alimentation is meant not only necessary food, but raiment and things of personal necessity and comfort commensurate with the husband’s ability to make such provision.

From Marriage and Divorce Laws of the World by Ringrose, Hyacinthe