alimentern.
/ˈalᵻm(ə)ntə/, U.S. /ˈæləm(ə)ntər/ Now rare.
A person who or thing which aliments (in various senses of the verb).
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the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [noun] > nourishing agent
nursea1398
nourisher1528
educator1566
nutritor1677
alimenter1714
1714 W. Forbes Jrnl. Session 1705–13 196 Here no Necessity gave Rise to the Aliment, but the Alimenter's free Desire to have his Nephew in his own Family.
1832 A. Slade Records of Travels in Turkey, Greece, & Black Sea II. xxi. 284 Vice, the great alimenter of idleness.
1869 Eng. Mech. 24 Sept. 16/1 The automaton alimenter [for supplying water to a boiler].
1912 Jrnl. Washington Acad. Sci. 19 June 298 Cirque glaciers do not require tributary upper névés for their alimentation... The wind is their chief alimenter.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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