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

Rectal Feeding.—When the prostration is great, it is sometimes necessary to give saline enemas and even rectal alimentation to prevent collapse.

From Dietetics for Nurses by Proudfit, Fairfax T.

Owing to the peculiar alimentation systems of Gnome type engines, atomized gasoline mixed with air is drawn through the hollow stationary crank-shaft directly into the crank-case which it fills on the way to the cylinders.

From Aviation Engines Design?Construction?Operation and Repair by Pag?, Victor Wilfred

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

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