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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
aliment .
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Examples
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He thus pens his narrative of the visit "upon the stove in this celebrated kitchen — which first alimented the brain of that great hero," and which, we infer, now inspires these lines.
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Each parcel of the body draws it then unto itself, and after its own fashion is cherished and alimented by it.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Nor yet will the sun shine upon the earth, nor the stars send down any good influence, because the terrestrial globe hath desisted from sending up their wonted nourishment by vapours and exhalations, wherewith Heraclitus said, the Stoics proved, Cicero maintained, they were cherished and alimented.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Nor yet will the sun shine upon the earth, nor the stars send down any good influence, because the terrestrial globe hath desisted from sending up their wonted nourishment by vapours and exhalations, wherewith Heraclitus said, the Stoics proved, Cicero maintained, they were cherished and alimented.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Each parcel of the body draws it then unto itself, and after its own fashion is cherished and alimented by it.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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If we look at home only, where, we ask, would the woollen manufacture be now, but for the early laws restrictive of the importation of foreign woollens, nay more, restrictive of the export of British fleeces with which the manufactories of Belgium were alimented?
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 Various
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They would have alimented the honest man decently among them for
Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10) 1824
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Each parcel of the body draws it then unto itself, and after its own fashion is cherished and alimented by it.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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Stoics proved, Cicero maintained, they were cherished and alimented.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 3 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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