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macrobiotic, a. and n.|ˌmækrəʊbaɪˈɒtɪk|
[Formed as prec. + -ic.]
1. a. adj. Inclined or tending to prolong life; relating to the prolongation of life. b. n. pl. The science of prolonging life.
1797Hufeland's Art Prolong. Life Pref. (1853) 11 Hence arises a particular science, the Macrobiotic, or the art of prolonging it [life], which forms the subject of the present work. 1822New Monthly Mag. V. 351 Any of your readers..of macrobiotic tendencies. 1862De Quincy Wks. X. 251 note, A Greek work on the subject of macro⁓biotics. 1879Punch 1 Nov. 201/2 Dr. Richardson..is a great makrobiotic sage.
2. adj. Of or pertaining to a Zen Buddhist dietary system intended to prolong life, comprising pure vegetable foods, brown rice, etc. Also as n., a follower or adherent of this system; macrobiotics n. pl. (const. as sing.), the use or theory of such a dietary system.
1936L. P. Weaver tr. Székely's Cosmos, Man & Society iii. ii. 207 (heading) Macrobiotics, the optimal and omnilateral correlations of longevity. 1965W. Dufty You are All Sanpaku (Eng. version of Y. Sakurazawa's Zen Macrobiotics) 178 Macrobiotics is not the kind of vegetarianism which is merely sentimental. 1968New Yorker 10 Feb. 22 Macrobiotic. That means she'll eat fish. 1969Listener 17 July 79/3 Macrobiotics is a life science discovered in Japan by Georges Ohsawa and it's based on the two pillars of philosophy and diet—the staple food being brown rice. 1970M. Spark Driver's Seat 48 Rice, unpolished rice is the basis of macrobiotics... It is a cleansing diet. Physically, mentally and spiritually. 1970Time 16 Nov. 59 Most macrobiotics, as Ohsawa's devotees call themselves, try to follow his other nine diets, which are graduated from six to minus three to include increasing amounts of fish and vegetables—organically grown—along with brown rice. 1971Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 10 May 9/4 Macrobiotic nibblers of seeds, bean curd, kale, other seaweeds and brown rice, are spreading their message of love and peace by feeding. 1971Daily Tel. 18 Oct. 4/6 The macrobiotic diet, a rigid system based on vegetables and cereals..is denounced..by the American Medical Association as bad for health and even potentially lethal. 1972Guardian 1 Dec. 11/2 Right now she is into the Zen macrobiotic brown-rice bit. 1973‘P. Reid’ Harris in Wonderland vii. 55 Supper..was macrobiotic, leeks and brown rice on a wooden plate. 1975Listener 1 May 589/3 Macrobiotics crumbling to death in the name of good health. |