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

The problem of alimentation is, indeed, one of the most essential, perhaps the most essential, in the history of humanity.

From The Pros and Cons of Vivisection by Richet, Charles

The chief, if not the exclusive sources of his mental alimentation have been the Chinese Classics.

From Village Life in China A Study in Sociology by Smith, Arthur H.

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

For all these children public alimentation and clothing also would be a godsend.

From Woman under socialism by De Leon, Daniel