aliment

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The pope will then move to a chair to the side of the altar and preside from there, sitting most of the time because of knee aliment that impedes him from standing for too long.

From Reuters • Jan. 4, 2023

It was also linked to about 225 cases worldwide of a fatal human brain aliment known as variant Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.

From Washington Post • Apr. 25, 2012

Food was food, "one universal aliment," a generalized fuel for the body.

From Time Magazine Archive

So far, from contenting themselves with the preparation of some simple aliment, for such as were an hungered, the appetites of all were solicited, by a parade of the rarest liquors and the choicest viands.

From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by School, A Sexton of the Old

The engine would occupy less space and weight than the men, would require less aliment, and that of a less expensive kind, etc.

From A History of the Growth of the Steam-Engine by Thurston, Robert H.