a. Obs. rare. [f. ALIMONY + -OUS: cf. ceremonious.] Supplying nourishment or sustenance.
1659. Lady Alimony, V. vi. in Hazl., Dods., XIV. 366. Alimonious wages To feed their boundless riot!
1666. G. Harvey, Morbus Angl., xxviii. 159–60 (J.). They are … incapacitated of digesting the alimonious humours into flesh.
