an epithet for every thing that belongs to aliment or food.

ALIMENTARY debt, in Scots law, an obligation come under by one person to pay a certain sum annually for the maintenance of another, either gratuitously, in consideration of a sum of money sunk, or by way of wages. See LAW, title, Arrestment and payment.

ALIMENTARY children, in Roman antiquity, an appellation given to those educated in houses not unlike our hospitals.

ALIMENTARY law, among the Romans, that whereby children were obliged to maintain their aged parents.