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alere

alere [CL] , to feed, nourish, foster. b (fig.). v. et. altus. heremita ‥ membrorum vitalia ‥ quinque caricibus ‥ sustentasse et aluisse describitur Aldh. PR 114; insula ‥ alendis apta pecoribus Bede HE I 1; 1185 pro frumento empto ad alendas columbas Pipe 215; principes filios suos generosis de terra sua viris diversis diversos alendos tradunt Gir. DK II 4; celi panis jejunos aluit J. Howd. Ph. 935; [muliercula] liquore tantum cervisie ‥ septem diebus puerum suum cogebatur alere (Osmundus) NLA II 247.  b dolum intus alentes [AS: facn wiðinnan tyddriende] Ælf. Coll. 101; legendi studio quasi quotidiano cibo alitur et pinguescit oratio Gir. EH pref. p. 223.

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