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

I now fear nothing in the future, so far as health and disease are concerned, so much as excessive alimentation.

From Vegetable Diet: As Sanctioned by Medical Men, and by Experience in All Ages Including a System of Vegetable Cookery by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)

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

From Martyria or Andersonville Prison by Hamlin, Augustus C.

But, though a vegetable alimentation is possible, our western civilisation is bound up with the principle of a mixed diet in the ordinary conditions of life.

From The Pros and Cons of Vivisection by Richet, Charles

Egg-nog is very nutritious, and is extensively prescribed in certain non-febrile diseases, especially for the forced alimentation of phthisis and melancholia.

From The Suffrage Cook Book by Kleber, L. O., Mrs.