a. rare. [f. L. alimentāt ppl. stem of alimentā-re (see ALIMENT v.) + -IVE.] Connected with the supply of aliment.
1881. Huxley, in Nature, No. 615. 346/1. There can be only two kinds of diseases, the one dependent on abnormal states of the physiological units, the other on perturbation of their co-ordinating and alimentative machinery.
