单词 | alimentation |
释义 | alimentationn.1 1. Chiefly Law. Provision of a means of living; maintenance, support, alimony. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > supply > [noun] > provision of means of support or livelihood substancec1384 maintenance1389 sustenance1389 sustentation1389 sustaining1395 findingc1400 uphold1439 retainment1449 exhibition?a1475 entertainment?c1475 upholdingc1480 entertaininga1492 sustenation1496 support1561 alimentation1590 alimony1622 enablement1626 subsisting1698 keep1801 life support1852 palimony1977 1590 H. Swinburne Briefe Treat. Test. & Willes v. f. 201 As if he did bequeath it vnto hir for hir alimentation. 1653 tr. L. van Aitzema Notable Revol. Netherlands sig. b2 Any Churchpersons within the Provinces..shall bee afforded due Alimentation and sustenance during their lives from their said Cloisters or Colleges. 1674 J. Godolphin Orphans Legacy iii. ii. 208 They are capable of being Legataries..so far as is needfull or necessary for their convenient sustentation, or for their competent alimentation and relief. 1862 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire VII. lxvi. 193 The alimentation of poor children..was extended or increased by fresh endowments. 1896 D. W. Amram Jewish Law of Divorce x. 130 The legal rights of the children and their rights to alimentation by the father, should in no way be impaired by a divorce. 1946 Virginia Law Rev. 32 689 He objects to the French rule, with respect to judgments for alimentation, which applies the French law to a child who becomes French. 2002 Amer. Jrnl. Compar. Law 50 584 An earlier issued Christian court order to pay alimentation after divorce. 2. a. The action or process of being nourished by or of ingesting and digesting food; the action or process of providing food or nutrients; nourishment; nutrition. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [noun] nourishmentc1330 nurshinga1382 nurshmenta1382 sustenance1389 nutrition?a1425 nutrure?c1450 sustentation1452 nutrifaction?1503 education1533 feeding1547 nourishing1560 nutriture1568 cherishment1593 subsistence1615 nutrication1623 alimentation1626 keeping1644 alition1650 alumnation1658 focillation1658 aliture1721 altion1721 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum 154 Plants doe nourish; Inanimate Bodies doe not: They haue an Accretion, but no Alimentation. 1640 G. Watts tr. F. Bacon Of Advancem. Learning iii. v. 170 A man that..hath thoroughly observed the nature of assimulation, & of Alimentation. 1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. 258 The Blood which runneth alongst the Channels of the Veins thereof, for the Nourishment and Alimentation of each of its Members. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Alimentation is used, by some naturalists, for what we more ordinarily call nutrition. 1771 J. Bethune Ess. Var. Subj. (new ed.) II. ix. 295 Nothing can be called a vegetable without a principle of alimentation. 1849–52 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. IV. ii. 1203/2 The tentacula of the Bryozoa..are subservient to the purposes of alimentation. 1872 T. H. Huxley Lessons Elem. Physiol. (ed. 6) i. 15 The organs which convert food into nutriment are the organs of alimentation. 1935 C. G. Shaw Logic vi. 104 What we seem to have in an organism is a system of oxidization, alimentation, carbohydrous repair, and reproduction. 1971 Amer. Jrnl. Surg. 122 20/2 At the present time, high calorie parenteral alimentation is being used with encouraging results as an adjunct in the early postoperative treatment of these patients. 2004 Wonderlust Apr. 81/1 One of that new breed of eatery-sleeperies touted as ‘restaurants with rooms’, the Newbridge doesn't neglect one for the other—both accommodation and alimentation are accomplished with seemingly minimal effort. b. The food or nutrients supplied to or consumed by a person, animal, or plant; diet; an instance of this. Now rare. ΚΠ 1829 Periscope Apr. in Medico-chirurg. Rev., & Jrnl. Pract. Med. 11 151/1 The patient was kept at first on sugar and water, and gradually allowed barley water and similar slops, previously to more substantial alimentation. 1868 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. (ed. 10) II. iii. xliii. 471 That climate, social condition, alimentation, and mode of life may have determined originally the diversity of races. 1894 Amer. Anthropologist 7 385 In both instances we have a people subsisting upon a similar inadequate or at least non-osteoplastic alimentation. 1920 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 14 Feb. 436/2 Somethings we know about it sc. resistance to tuberculosis: the value of outdoor living, sunshine, rest, alimentation, a cheerful disposition toward the events of life, [etc.]. 2012 Arch. Gerontol. & Geriatrics 54 223/1 Generally caused by insufficient exposure and/or poor alimentation, this [sc. hypovitaminosis D] determined rickets in children and osteomalacia in adults. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022). alimentationn.2 In France and French-speaking countries: a grocery shop. Elsewhere: a shop specializing in French or other continental foods; a delicatessen. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shop selling provisions provision shop1796 pulperia1818 grocery1828 alimentation1958 society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shop selling provisions > delicatessen épicerie1836 Italian warehouse1837 delicatessen1884 salumeria1926 deli1948 alimentation1958 1958 Spectator 15 Aug. 222/2 Continental delicatessen and Soho alimentations. 1978 Washington Post (Nexis) 16 Nov. e1 We went to the alimentation, a tiny one-room grocery store operated by M. and Mme. Bœuf. 1992 Time Out 22 Apr. 67/1 The innocent country boy has come a long way from his parent's alimentation in the rural south-west. 2003 Times (Nexis) 12 Apr. 17 Narrow alleys hiding wine cellars and alimentations lead to a restored citadel. 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