Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating or pertaining to food or to the desire to eat and drink.
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Examples
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Sam's alimentive faculty being in a state of great activity, he ate heartily, finishing up with two pieces of
A California Girl Edward Eldridge
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He was an average sample of the good-natured, warm-blooded, proud-spirited, amative, alimentive, convivial, young and early-middle-aged man of the decent-born middle classes everywhere and any how.
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He was an average sample of the good-natured, warm-blooded, proud-spirited, amative, alimentive, convivial, young and early-middle-aged man of the decent-born middle classes everywhere and any how.
November Boughs ; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose 1855
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He was an average sample of the good-natured, warm-blooded, proud-spirited, amative, alimentive, convivial, young and early-middle-aged man of the decent-born middle classes everywhere and any how.
Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy Walt Whitman 1855
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