Definition of "alimented" [alimented]

• Simple past tense and past participle of aliment. (verb)

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• "He thus pens his narrative of the visit "upon the stove in this celebrated kitchen — which first alimented the brain of that great hero," and which, we infer, now inspires these lines."
• "Each parcel of the body draws it then unto itself, and after its own fashion is cherished and alimented by it."
• "Nor yet will the sun shine upon the earth, nor the stars send down any good influence, because the terrestrial globe hath desisted from sending up their wonted nourishment by vapours and exhalations, wherewith Heraclitus said, the Stoics proved, Cicero maintained, they were cherished and alimented."