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発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈa.lɪ.mənt/

名詞

aliment (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 aliments)

1. (now rare) Food.
2. (figuratively) Nourishment, sustenance.
   • 1597, Francis Bacon, “Of the Coulers of Good and Evill. A Fragment.”, in James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, and Douglas Denon Heath, editors, The Works of Francis Bacon, […], volume VII, London: Longman, Green, and Co.; […], published 1859, OCLC 855393451, pages 90–91:

     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.

   • 1978, Lawrence Durrell, Livia, Faber & Faber 1992 (Avignon Quintet), p. 356:

     All this monotony might be a good aliment for a poet but what if one had no gifts?

3. (Scotland) An allowance for maintenance; alimony.

動詞

aliment (三人称単数 現在形 aliments, 現在分詞 alimenting, 過去形および過去分詞形 alimented)

1. (obsolete) To feed, nourish.
2. To sustain, support.
   • 2002, Colin Jones, The Great Nation, Penguin 2003, p. 434:

     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.

関連する語

• alimentary
• alimentary canal
• alimony
• alimental
• alimentous

アナグラム

• ailment, maltine, netmail