aliment a rin ess (aliment a rines)

The quality of being alimentary, or of supplying alimentary (al-i- men'ta-ri), a . [ ali mentum , ali- ment: see ali- ment.] 1. Per- taining to ali- ment or food; having the quali- ty of nourishing: as, alimentary par- ticles.-2. Hav- ing an apparatus for alimentation, and consequent- ly able to feed. Huxley. [Rare.] - 3. Concerned with the function of nutrition: as, alimentary pro- 15 the enteron, in any condition of the lat- form of archenteron to the most complex of its ultimate modi- fications. In its sim- plest form it is merely the cavity of a two- IMG:content-0497.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0498.png:[blocks in formation] Merivale, Roman Empire, VIII. 193. Ceasing by and by to have any knowledge of, or power over, the concerns of the society as a whole, the serf-cla becomes devoted to the proce es of alimentation , while the noble cla , ceasing to take any part in the proce es of alimentation , becomes devoted to the co-ordinated movements of the entire body politic. H. Spencer , Univ. Prog., pp. 405-6. alimentative (al-i-men'ta-tiv), a. [ ali ment at us , pp. of aliment are (see aliment , v .), + -ive .] Nourishing; relating to or connected with the supply of nourishment: as, “the aliment a tive machinery of the physiological units," Hux ley.