Aliment vs Ointment - What's the difference?
aliment | ointment |
Food.
(figuratively) Nourishment, sustenance.
* Francis Bacon
* 1978 , (Lawrence Durrell), Livia'', Faber & Faber 1992 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 356:
(Scotland) An allowance for maintenance.
(obsolete) To feed, nourish.
To sustain, support.
* 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, p. 434:
(medicine) A viscous preparation of oils and/or fats, usually containing medication, used as a treatment or as an emollient.
As nouns the difference between aliment and ointment
is that aliment is food while ointment is (medicine) a viscous preparation of oils and/or fats, usually containing medication, used as a treatment or as an emollient.As a verb aliment
is (obsolete) to feed, nourish.aliment
English
Noun
(en noun)- aliments of their sloth and weakness
- All this monotony might be a good aliment for a poet but what if one had no gifts?
Verb
(en verb)- Yet there would also be many – and not simply the powerful and ultra-privileged – who lost out, and whose discontent operated as a kind of political yeast, alimenting ‘unpatriotic’ thoughts and acts.