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Webster 1913 Edition


Diet

Di′et

,
Noun.
[F.
diète
, L.
diaeta
, fr. Gr. [GREEK] manner of living.]
1.
Course of living or nourishment; what is eaten and drunk habitually; food; victuals; fare.
“No inconvenient diet.”
Milton.
2.
A course of food selected with reference to a particular state of health; prescribed allowance of food; regimen prescribed.
To fast like one that takes
diet
.
Shakespeare
Diet kitchen
,
a kitchen in which diet is prepared for invalids; a charitable establishment that provides proper food for the sick poor.

Di′et

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Dieted
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Dieting
.]
1.
To cause to take food; to feed.
[R.]
Shak.
2.
To cause to eat and drink sparingly, or by prescribed rules; to regulate medicinally the food of.
She
diets
him with fasting every day.
Spenser.

Di′et

,
Verb.
I.
1.
To eat; to take one’s meals.
[Obs.]
Let him . . .
diet
in such places, where there is good company of the nation, where he traveleth.
Bacon.
2.
To eat according to prescribed rules; to ear sparingly;
as, the doctor says he must
diet
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Diet

DIET

,
Noun.
[L., Gr., manner of living, mode of life prescribe by a physician, food, a room, parlor or bed room. In the middle ages, this word was used to denote the provision or food for one day, and for a journey of one day. Hence it seems to be from dies, day, or its root; and hence the word may have come to signify a meal or supper, and the room occupied for eating.]
1.
Food or victuals; as, milk is a wholesome diet; flesh is nourishing diet.
2.
Food regulated by a physician, or by medical rules; food prescribed for the prevention or cure of disease, and limited in kind or quantity. I restrained myself to a regular diet of flesh once a day.
3.
Allowance of provision.
For his diet there was a continual diet given him by the king. Jeremiah 52.
4.
Board, or boarding; as, to pay a certain sum for diet, washing and lodging.

DIET

,
Noun.
[G.] An assembly of the states or circles of the empire of Germany and of Poland; a convention of princes, electors, ecclesiastical dignitaries, and representatives of free cities, to deliberate on the affairs of the empire. There are also diets of states and cantons.

DIET

, v.t.
1.
To feed; to board; to furnish provisions for; as, the master diets his apprentice.
2.
To take food by rules prescribed; as, an invalid should carefully diet himself.
3.
To feed; to furnish aliment; as, to diet revenge.

DIET

,
Verb.
I.
1.
To eat according to rules prescribed.
2.
To eat; to feed; as, the students diet in commons.

Definition 2024


diët

diët

See also: diet, diệt, Diet, and DIET

English

Noun

diët (plural diëts)

  1. Rare spelling of diet.