Meanings
adjectiveinalimental (not comparable)
- not comparableobsoleteNot nourishing.
The dulcoration of things is worthy to be tried to the full ; for that dulcoration importeth a degree to nourishment : and the making of things inalimental , to become alimental , may be an experiment of great profit for making new victual
1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “VII. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC
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Rhymes with inalimental
environmentalrentaldentalexperimentalcontinentaldevelopmentalgentleinstrumentaldepartmentalaccidentalelementalintergovernmentaloccidentaltranscendentalnongovernmentalcoincidentallentiljudgmentalinterdepartmentaltemperamentalentalcompartmentalunsentimentalcental
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