单词 | alimentive |
释义 | alimentiveadj. Now rare. 1. = alimentary adj. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > [adjective] digerent1477 digestive?1533 concoct1534 concoctive1578 concocting1620 digestible1651 peptic1651 digestative1657 concoquent1684 digestic1797 peptical1831 alimentive1835 the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [adjective] > relating to nutrition belly1377 nutritivea1398 alimentative1653 alimentary1730 threptica1832 alimentive1835 nutritory1883 1835 Permanent Temperance Documents (Amer. Temperance Soc.) I. 503 A cough, or difficult breathing from bronchial or thoracic irritation or effusion, an enfeebled and irregular action of the alimentive organs. 1860 Med. Times & Gaz. 8 Sept. 236/1 The stomach contained..thick mucoid matter mixed with some alimentive substances resembling bread. 1886 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 11 Sept. 290/2 The bowels, long..used to overdistension and torpor, will not respond to the most positive of alimentive stimuli. 1910 M. Talmey Psyche xi. 26 The alimentive and generative organs mainly give rise to those sensations and feelings which call forth instincts. 2. Esp. in phrenology: designating the propensity to seek food and drink; producing or exhibiting this propensity. Also: (excessively) fond of eating and drinking. Cf. alimentative adj. 2. ΚΠ 1835 W. Lewis tr. F. J. Gall On Functions of Brain & Each of its Parts 59 I am ready to admit a frugivorous organ, as soon as the cerebral parts belonging to it can be indicated; or whenever the instinct for animal food can be demonstrated to be nothing more than a modification or increase of the general alimentive instinct [Fr. d'un instinct général nourricier]. 1856 U.S. Mag. 4 244/2 The source of all sensual excesses in eating and drinking, lies in the alimentive region of the brain, which prompts to these excesses: and beyond that region it lies in the physical constitution of the body. 1922 Jrnl. Amer. Dental Assoc. 9 1059/1 The Alimentive Type: Can be briefly described as having a large mouth, small depressed nose, globular cheeks and chin, slow motion, slow pulse, large abdomen, voracious appetite, partial to liquid foods, loves sleep and ease. 1995 ELH 62 752 The other Jonson is the cannily, unabashedly alimentive and scatalogical [sic], phantasmagoric, baroque,..savory and unsavory mind recorded by William Drummond. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1835 |
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