What does aliment mean?
Aliment means (now rare) Food..
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/ˈæ.lɪ.mənt/ · noun
(now rare) Food..
In the living state, the body is observed to receive aliment; [...]
As when Demosthenes reprehended the people for hearkening to the conditions offered by King Philip, being not honourable nor equal, he saith they were but aliments of their sloth and weakness, which if they were taken away, necessity would teach them stronger resolutions.
All this monotony might be a good aliment for a poet but what if one had no gifts?
Yet there would also be many – and not simply the powerful and ultra-privileged – who lost out, and whose discontent operated as a kind of political yeast, alimenting ‘unpatriotic’ thoughts and acts.
Use aliment when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Aliment means (now rare) Food..
Common synonyms include nourish, sustenance, nourishment, alimentation.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
In the living state, the body is observed to receive aliment; [...]
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