alimentative

American

[al-uh-men-tuh-tiv] / ˌæl əˈmɛn tə tɪv /

adjective

nourishing; nutritive.

Other Word Forms

alimentatively adverb
alimentativeness noun
unalimentative adjective

Etymology

Origin of alimentative

First recorded in 1880–85; aliment + -ative

Example Sentences

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The efficacy of an army, at any given moment, depends on the health of the individual soldier, and on the perfection of the machinery by which he is led and brought into action at the proper time; and, therefore, if the analogy holds good, there can be only two kinds of diseases, the one dependent on abnormal states of the physiological units, the other on perturbations of their co-ordinating and alimentative machinery.

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