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 am also aware that an exclusively vegetable alimentation might be substituted for our customary mixed diet, which is both animal and vegetable.

From The Pros and Cons of Vivisection by Richet, Charles

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

By the way, I learned a few things in an experimental process about the great subject of alimentation.

From Confessions of a Neurasthenic by Marrs, William Taylor

But Buffon further imagined that innumerable “mol�cules organiques” are dispersed throughout the world, and that alimentation consists in the appropriation by the parts of an organism of those molecules which are analogous to them.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" by Various