Food.
In the living state, the body is observed to receive aliment; [...]
Nourishment, sustenance.
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.
An allowance for maintenance; alimony.
To feed, nourish.
To sustain, support.
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.
From French aliment, from Latin alimentum (“food”).
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