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

Although an integral portion of the gut, it has ceased to assist in alimentation, its epithelium undergoes vacuolar differentiation and hypertrophy, and its lumen becomes more or less vestigial.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various

The refusal, or wilful neglect, of one spouse to furnish alimentation, or support, to the other, in accordance with law.

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

For this reason many new trees spring up in groups, obtaining their first alimentation from the dissolution of the corpse.

From My Friends the Savages Notes and Observations of a Perak settler (Malay Peninsula) by Sanpietro, I. Stone

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

From Martyria or Andersonville Prison by Hamlin, Augustus C.