alimentous

adj

1. (obsolete)Nourishing; nutritional.

   “There are also occult qualities belonging to the alimentous, which are introduced into the aliment by the common workhouses, and by the parts to be nourished (although no man hath yet found them out), and therefore they may on that account also be called alimentous.”

   “This simple alimentous medicine being liberally taken , ( for it should be used instead of all other drinks while the disease continues ) has been very frequently found to cure fluxes not all of one sort in Ireland itself , where that kind of disease is endemic.”

   “Venal and others argued that the alimentous substance was already present in foods, and digestion was only a process of selective removal through a series of chemical solvents, the digestive juices, often represented as having a 'soapy' quality.”