dietn.¹

Brit.

/ˈdʌɪət/, U.S.

/ˈdaɪət/

Forms: Middle English–1500s diete, (Middle English diat, dyette, Middle English–1500s dyete, diette), Middle English–1700s dyet, (1500s diot, dyot, dyat, dieat, dyeat), Middle English– diet.

Etymology: < Old French diete (13th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter), = Spanish dieta, Portuguese dieta, Italian dieta, < Latin diæta (in medieval Latin diēta), < Greek δίαιτα ‘mode of life’. (Supposed to be connected with ζάειν to live: see Meyer Gr. Gram. §261.)

†1. Course of life: way of living or thinking. of the same diet, of a different diet, both of a diet, i.e. sort or kind.

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the world > action or operation > behaviour > way of life > [noun]

lifeeOE

lifewayOE

livelihoodOE

livingc1350

dietc1460

tradec1485

use1488

daily life1516

way of living1516

governmenta1616

way of lifea1616

tread1628

mode1758

c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn l. 1431 Ech day our diete Shall be mery & solase, & this shall be for-ȝete.

1567 Triall of Treasure sig. Dii^v Beholde howe a lie can please some folkes diet.

1615 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. III. O.T. x. 201 Either this was the Sonne himself..or else one..of the same diet.

1618 Bp. J. Hall Righteovs Mammon 7 Francis of Assise and hee, were both of a Diet.

1620 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. V. O.T. xiv. 131 Worldly mindes thinke no man can bee of any other, then their owne diet.

a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 255 The mindes of men may be of a different diet.

2. esp. Customary course of living as to food: way of feeding.

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the world > food and drink > food > diet > [noun] > customary diet

dietc1386

c1386 G. Chaucer Pardoner's Tale 188 He wolde been the moore mesurable Of his diete sittynge at his table.

1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) iv. l. 333 Off dyet fayr Wallace tuk neuir kepe Bot as it come welcum was meit and sleip.

1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. xiii. sig. Fvi He wyll..enquire, what skyll he hath in feedyng, called diete, and kepyng of his hauke from all sickenes.

1625 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated ii. xv. 259 Scarcity..invites the mountaine dwellers to a more sparing and wholesome diet.

1774 J. Bryant New Syst. II. 261 He brought mankind from their foul and savage way of feeding to a more mild and rational diet.

1838 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella II. ii. v. 390 He maintained the same abstemious diet, amidst all the luxuries of his table.

1866 D. Livingstone 23 Dec. in Last Jrnls. (1874) I. vii. 162 A meat diet is far from satisfying.

3. Prescribed course of food, restricted in kind or limited in quantity, esp. for medical or penal reasons; regimen. Hence to put to a diet (French mettre à la diète), to keep or take diet (French observer une diète).

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the world > food and drink > food > diet > [noun] > prescribed diet

dietc1386

dietaryc1450

elimination diet1928

c1386 G. Chaucer Nun's Priest's Tale 18 No deyntee morsel passed thurgh hir throte..Attempree diete was al hir phisik.

c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 72 Þe firste tretis is of gouernaunce & diete of men þat ben woundid.

c1440 Gesta Romanorum (Add. MS.) xix. 334 There was a man-sleer taken, and put into prison, and put to his diete.

1495 Act II Hen. VII c. 2 §1 He to be sette..in Stokkis by the space of vj daies with like diete as is before reherced.

a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. M.vij^v The ydeotte kepeth diete from bookes and resteth on his meate.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) ii. i. 23 To fast, like one that takes diet .

a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) ii. i. 109 Past cure of the thing you wot of, vnlesse they kept very good diet .

1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. i. 1 I define Diet..to be an orderly and due course observed in the use of bodily nourishments.

1727 J. Arbuthnot John Bull in J. Swift et al. Misc. in Prose & Verse II. 210 He..by Diet, Purging, Vomiting, and Bleeding, try'd to bring them to equal Bulk.

1741 S. Johnson in Gentleman's Mag. July 376 To preach Diet and Abstinence to his Patients.

1841 M. Elphinstone Hist. India I. App. iii. 455 They rely most on diet and regimen, and next, on external applications.

4. Food; the provisions or victuals in daily use, viewed as a collective whole, especially in relation to their quality and effects.

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the world > food and drink > food > [noun]

meateOE

eatOE

foodOE

fodderOE

dietc1230

gista1290

victual1303

victualsa1375

preya1382

feedinga1398

pasturea1398

viancea1400

viandsc1400

livingc1405

meatingc1425

vitalyc1440

vianda1450

cates1461

vivers1536

viandry1542

viander1543

gut-matter1549

peck1567

belly-cheer1579

appast1580

manchet1583

chat1584

belly-metal1590

repasture1598

cibaries1599

belly-timber1607

belly-cheat1608

peckage1610

victuallage1622

keeping1644

vivresa1650

crib1652

prog1655

grub1659

beef1661

fooding1663

teething1673

eatablea1687

sunket1686

yam1788

chow-chow1795

keep1801

feed1818

grubbing1819

patter1824

ninyam1826

nyam1828

grubbery1831

tack1834

kai1845

mungaree1846

scoff1846

foodstuff1847

chuck1850

muckamuck1852

tuck1857

tucker1858

hash1865

nosh1873

jock1879

cake flour1881

chow1886

nosebag1888

stodge1890

food aid1900

tackle1900

munga1907

scarf1932

grubber1959

c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 61 Understondeð þet dei hwuch wes his diete. i þe ilke blodletunge se baleful & se bitter.

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) vii. lv. 268 In chyldern the vryne is thycke by cause of gleymy diete.

c1420 Anturs of Arth. xv With alle dayntethis on dese, thi dietis are diȝte.

a1575 N. Harpsfield Treat. Divorce Henry VIII (1878) (modernized text) 202 Kept in prison with coarse and thin diet.

1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 50^v That the babe bee..not fed with counterfaite diet.

a1682 Sir T. Browne Certain Misc. Tracts (1684) 17 The Athletick Diet was of Pulse.

1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. May (1965) I. 410 Herbs or Roots (without oil) and plain dry Bread. This is their Lenten diet.

1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xiv. 144 The dogs were too much distended by their abundant diet to move.

1868 W. E. Gladstone Juventus Mundi (1870) v. 128 Nay, even a change of diet confronts us..the ox ceases to be used as food.

b.figurative.1579 S. Gosson Schoole of Abuse f. 23^v Yet are they [sc. plays] not fit for euery mans dyet.1823 C. Lamb Sonn. Sydney in Elia 2nd Ser. A thin diet of dainty words.

†5.

a. An allowance or provision of food. Obsolete.

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the world > food and drink > food > supply of food or provisions > rations > [noun]

liverisona1325

ordinary1481

allowance1526

diet1533

commons1541

common1638

ration1687

dietary1838

1533 Ord. Hen. VIII in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. II. 30 We..commaunde you to alloue dailly from hensforth unto..the Lady Lucye..the dyat and fare herafter ensuyng.

1611 Bible (King James) Jer. lii. 34 And for his diet, there was a continuall diet [ Coverd. lyuynge] giuen him..euery day a portion [ Cov. a certayne thinge alowed him] .

1671 F. Philipps Regale Necessarium 370 The young Lords or Nobility had a constant Table or dyet in the Court.

a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1663 (1955) III. 360 It was saied it should be the last of the publique Diets or Tables at Court.

†b. Board. Obsolete exc. Historical.

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the world > food and drink > food > supply of food or provisions > [noun] > board

boardc1386

mangeryc1400

diet1455

table-board1860

1455 Rolls of Parl. 293 The said Prince shall sojorne and be at diettez with the Kyng.

1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iii. iii. 72 You owe mony here, besides sir Iohn, for your diet .

1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. i. 98 Yong Fortenbrasse..Hath..Sharkt vp a sight of lawlesse Resolutes For food and diet.

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. iii. xv. 173 He shall haue..10 [pound] per annum, and his diet.

1645 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) I. 204 Here many of the merchants..have their lodging and diet as in a College.

1793 N. Chipman Rep. & Diss. i. 50 The bond was taken..for the prisoner's..diet, and to secure the Gaoler's fees.

1878 R. Simpson School of Shakspere I. 74 The king..gave him 3,000 ducats more, besides the daily expenses of his lodging and diet.

†6. Allowance for the expenses of living. Obsolete.

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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > grants and allowances > [noun] > allowance > for specific purpose > for food or maintenance

meatcorn1264

corrody1430

sustentation1461

dieta1483

diet-money1519

board wages1539

viaticum1594

subsistence money1693

table allowance1762

board-money1809

subsistence allowance1824

beer money1827

in-maintenance1836

subsistence allowance1848

conred1876

sustenance money1905

rider1975

a1483 Liber Niger in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 24 This must cause her comyn diette to be the more for the high estate of her proper person.

1535 Act 27 Hen. VIII c. 27 Suche like diettes, rewardes, profites and commodities..for their attendance vpon the saide Chauncellour.

c1540 Bp. Bonner in Wyatt's Poems Pref. (1854) 41 If he were a good husband, the diets of iiij marks would find his house..after a far other sort than it is kept.

1551 R. Moryson Let. 20 Jan. (P.R.O. SP 68/6) f. 263 Is my land so increast sins my cummyng out..that men do thynke I may serue the Kyng with out my dyettes?

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxiv. 236 Common~wealths can endure no diet; seeing their expense is not limited by their own appetite, but by external accidents.

1885 R. W. Dixon Hist. Church Eng. (1893) III. xix. 338 The allowances of the ambassador, or, as they were called, his diets, were ever unpaid.]

7. Used attributively of (esp. carbonated soft) drinks with reduced sugar content sold commercially, as diet cola, diet Pepsi, etc. Originally U.S.

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the world > food and drink > drink > aerated or carbonated drink > [adjective] > diet drink

diet1963

1963 Newsweek 8 July 76/3 Pepsi introduced its Patio Diet Cola..and Coke its Tab..only days apart this year.

1964 Business Week 27 June 90/3 Patio Diet Cola was not the success Pepsi had hoped, so it has rushed to market a new drink, Diet Pepsi.

1966 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 29 Nov. tm237 PepsiCo, Inc., New York... Diet Pepsi.

1969 New Yorker 25 Oct. 58/2 She loves diet cola spiked with a spoonful of chocolate syrup.

1970 New Yorker 24 Oct. 58 (caption) They open flip-top can..Diet Pepsi.

1985 Washington Post 18 Sept. e21/6 The third- and fourth-fastest-growing items were breakfast sandwiches and diet colas.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

diet-bag n.

ΚΠ

1669 W. Simpson Hydrologia Chymica 162 Heaps of plants by some physicians are ordered to stuff diet-bags withal.

diet-list n.

ΚΠ

1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. i. 19 A very moderate supply of liquors..made up the diet-list.

diet-money n.

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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > grants and allowances > [noun] > allowance > for specific purpose > for food or maintenance

meatcorn1264

corrody1430

sustentation1461

dieta1483

diet-money1519

board wages1539

viaticum1594

subsistence money1693

table allowance1762

board-money1809

subsistence allowance1824

beer money1827

in-maintenance1836

subsistence allowance1848

conred1876

sustenance money1905

rider1975

1519 Sir T. Boleyn in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. I. 161 Send me such dyett-money as shall best please your Grace.

1551 Sir R. Moryson Let. 7 Jan. (P.R.O. SP 68/6) f. 245 I mervayl my dieat mony cummith not.

1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies I. vii. 74 Allow them as much Diet money as their own Soldiers receive.

C2. Also diet-book n., diet-drink n.

diet-bread n. special bread prepared for invalids or persons under dietetic regimen.

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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > [noun] > other types of bread

sergeant-loafa1348

clear-matin1362

bean-breadc1380

French bread1420

pease-breada1425

bran-breadc1425

grey breadc1430

angels' breadc1440

dough bread?a1500

baker's bread?1550

acorn bread1571

cart-bread1574

chapter-bread1600

diet-bread1617

ember-bread1681

buff coat1688

bust-coat1706

Picentine bread1712

chestnut-bread1814

naan1828

gluten-bread1846

to-bread1854

batch-bread1862

injera1868

coffee cake1879

pan dulce1882

quick bread1882

sour bread1884

Tommy1895

focaccia1905

hard-dough bread1911

hush puppy1918

potica1927

spoon bread1932

bake1933

pitta1936

hard-dough1966

pain de campagne1970

pocket bread1973

ciabatta1985

pain au levain1985

levain1991

1617 S. Collins Epphata to F. T. ii. ix. 357 To feede them with such dirt for diet-bread.

1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village I. 238 Three inferior servants were..drinking her green tea, eating her diet-bread, begging her gowns.

diet-kitchen n. (see quot. 1880).

ΚΠ

1880 Webster's Dict. Suppl. Diet-kitchen, a charitable establishment which provides proper food for the helpless poor.

† diet-pot n. Obsolete a pot by which to measure diet-drink.

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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > cooking vessel or pot > [noun] > other types of pot or pan

olla1535

pipkin1554

marmite1581

diet-pot1617

pipkinet1647

chocolate pot1676

gotch1691

lead1741

puchero1791

steamer1814

bake pot1822

kedgeree-pot1824

braising-pan1825

handi1847

craggan1880

yabba1889

sufuria1891

dixie1900

Revere1901

pressure cooker1914

pressure saucepan1940

li1945

wok1952

li ting1958

firepot1959

fondue pot1959

tian1978

1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate 35 The Dyet Pot is not alone to be vsed in cases of dyet drinke.

diet-sheet n. a paper showing a daily diet, esp. for the inmates of an institution.

ΚΠ

c1863 F. Nightingale in C. Woodham-Smith F. Nightingale (1950) xvii. 397 Revised diet sheets for Troop-Ships.

1902 J. H. M. Abbott Tommy Cornstalk 182 We all lay in, or upon, our beds with our board-mounted diet-sheets in our hands.

1918 W. Owen Let. 22 July (1967) 566 I see an old Diet Sheet on the table.

1967 Vogue Jan. 51/1 This is the Diet sheet. Vary meat, eggs, chicken and fish..to avoid boredom.

† diet-wood n. Obsolete (see quot. 1568).

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the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > preparations treating or preventing specific ailments > [noun] > for venereal disease or syphilis > plant-derived

diet-wood1568

pockwood1590

teamster's tea1728

iodipin1899

1568 W. Turner Herbal iii. 34 Guiacum..Some call it the Diet woode because they that kepe a diet for the French poxe..most commonly drinke the broth of this woode.

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dietn.²

Brit.

/ˈdʌɪət/, U.S.

/ˈdaɪət/

Etymology: < medieval Latin diēta in same senses, or < French diète in sense 5 (Cotgrave 1611): compare also Italian dieta ‘a parliament or generall assembly of estates’ (Florio, 1598), Spanish dieta the (Germanic) diet. Medieval Latin diēta had the various senses ‘day's journey’, ‘day's work’, ‘day's wage’, ‘space of a day’, as well as that of ‘assembly, meeting of councillors, diet of the empire’. The same senses, more or less, are (or have been) expressed by German tag , and French journée day. Diēta has therefore been viewed as a simple derivative of Latin dies day (see diurnal adj. and n.), distinct fromdiæta , Greek δίαιτα , diet n.¹ But it seems more likely that one or other of the senses developed < diæta was associated with dies, and led to the application of the word to other uses arising directly < dies. One of the senses given by Du Cange is ‘the ordinary course of the church’: this seems naturally transferred < δίαιτα, diæta, in the sense ‘ordinary or prescribed course of life’, which might be understood to mean ‘daily office’, and so lead to the use of diēta for other daily courses, duties, or occasions.

†1. A day's journey; ‘an excursion, a journey’ (Jamieson). Obsolete chiefly Scottish. (So French journée.)

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society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > a day's journey

a day's gangOE

journeyc1290

dayc1390

day ganga1400

day journey?a1425

dietc1440

journal1617

c1290 Fleta iv. xxviii. §13 (Du Cange) Omnis rationabilis dieta constat ex 20 miliaribus.]

c1440 Gesta Romanorum (Harl.) xix. 67 Also how many daies iourneys... This terme or this dyet, is not ellis but the terme of thi lyfe.

c1565 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1814) 212 (Jam.) Sum of the conspiratouris, who hard tell of the kingis dyett, followed fast to Leith eftir him.

1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem 143 Twa or thrie gude men of the Gilde sall travell with him for twa dyets.

a1651 D. Calderwood Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1678) 248 (Jam.) The king..prayeth him to waken up all men to attend his coming..for his diet would be sooner perhaps than was looked for.

†2. A day's work. Scottish. Obsolete. (So French journée.)

ΚΠ

1494 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 246 Item, to Thome Red and Jhone of Schipe, for vj diet at the wod, vj s.

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a. Scottish. A day fixed for a particular meeting or assembly; an appointed date or time.

b. spec. The day on which a party in a civil or criminal process is cited to appear in court. More fully diet of appearance, diet of compearance. (So Old French journée.)

ΚΠ

1568 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlvii. 80 Gif he cumis nocht thair, I wald we tuke, To keip oure dyet, Maister Dauid Makgill.

1640 in J. Nicholson Minute Bk. War Comm. Covenanters Kirkcudbright 13 Nov. (1855) 93 To compeir befoire the said Committie of Estaites..and that to anie day or diet the said Commissares or Collectores shall pleis to charge thame to.

1692 King William III Addit. Instr. to Sir T. Livingstone 16 Jan. in J. M'Conechy Papers Illustr. Polit. Condition Highlands (1845) 65 These who have not taken the benefite of our indemnity..within the dyet prefixed by our proclamation.

1692 A. Symson Large Descr. Galloway (1823) 26 A market for good fat kine [is] kept on the Friday..this market being rul'd by the dyets of the nolt-market of Wigton.

1708 Chamberlayne's Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (1743) ii. ii. vi. 391 Having obtained a Dyet, i.e. a set day for his publick trial.

1752 J. Louthian Form of Process (ed. 2) 9 All the Diets of Court are peremptory.

1810 Act 50 Geo. III c. 112 §27 In actions at present requiring two diets of appearance against persons within Scotland, there shall be only one diet of twenty-seven days.

†c. Date, day of date. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1588 A. King tr. P. Canisius Cathechisme or Schort Instr. 9 To raise [= erase] the diett off an instrumente.

a. Scottish. A session or sitting of a court or other body on an appointed day; a single session of any assembly occupying a day or part of one.

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society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > [noun] > sitting of

sittingc1410

session1444

access1587

diet1587

session1613

sederunt1628

seat1635

séance1789

1587 Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1599) §82 Called..before the justice or his deputes at iustice aires, or particular diettes.

1637 G. Gillespie Dispute against Eng.-Popish Ceremonies iii. i. 13 At the diets of weekly and ordinary preaching.

1643 J. Row Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1842) p. xxi I attendit many dayes and dyetts, and in end..a decreit was gifine thereupon.

1854 H. Keddie Phemie Millar II. 21 He's put on his Sabbath day claes..and sat out the haill diet.

1854 H. Miller Schools & Schoolmasters (1857) iii. 48 I began to dole out to them by the hour and the diet, long extempore biographies.

1876 J. Grant Hist. Burgh Schools Scotl. ii. iv. 147 In the week preceding, the classes shall be tried at two different diets by examiners appointed by the town Council.

1894 S. R. Crockett Raiders 25 Who met statedly for their diets of worship at Springholm.

b. to call the diet: to call the parties to an action in court on the appointed day. to desert the diet: see desert v. 4.

ΚΠ

1753 Scots Mag. Sept. 469/1 The diet was deserted as to Cameron.

1850 J. S. Blackie tr. Æschylus Lyrical Dramas I. 217 Herald, proclaim the diet, and command The people to attention.

1893 Daily News 28 Dec. 5/4 Outlawry is a sentence pronounced in the Supreme Criminal Court of Scotland in the absence of the accused at the calling of the diet, that is, the day on which he is summoned to appear and stand his trial.

a. A meeting by formal appointment for conference or transaction of national or international business; a conference, congress, convention. (In later use generally influenced by b.) (So Old French journée.)

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > conferring or consulting > a conference > particular types of

parliament?a1400

diet1471

symposiac1603

by-conference1625

guestling1629

sanhedrim1653

comitia1684

symposium1784

assembly1794

powwow1812

neighbourhood meeting1823

colloquium1861

congress1861

party conference1875

indaba1894

press conference1908

case conference1913

story conference1920

telemeeting1973

poster session1974

START1981

presser1988

1471 in Rymer State Papers 717 It is Appointed..that the Twenty fourth Day of September next comeyng, at the Towne of Alnewyke, shall be kept a Dyet, by the grete Commissioners of both Landes, for Reforming of the said Wrongs and Injuries.

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. clxxxxv^v After Easter was a daye of Diot holden bytwene Grauenynge & Calays for matyers touchynge the kynge and the duke of Burgoyne.

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. ciii A daye of dyet was atwene the two Kynges [of England and France] appoyntyd.

a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 280 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 103 Yai counsall ye pape to writ in yis wyss To ye Athile empriour..To adress to yat dyet to deme his awyss.

1598 R. Hakluyt tr. W. Esturmy & J. Kington in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. 156 There was demaunded, in the first dyet or conuention holden at Dordract, a recompense at the handes of the sayd English ambassadors.

1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxxv. xxv. 902 The Achæans..published a Diet and generall Counsell at Sicyone.

1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar xiv. 209 A diet of chiefs was held under Cæsar's presidency.

b. spec. Applied to the regular meeting of the estates of a realm or confederation; hence also collectively to the estates or representatives so meeting (cf. congress n.). The English name (from end of the 16th cent.) of the former Reichstag of the (German) Roman Empire, and of the federal or national assemblies of Switzerland, Poland, Hungary, etc.; later of the Bundestag of the Germanic Confederation (1815–66); applied also to the Reichstag or Imperial Parliament of the Austro-Hungarian and German Empires, and the Landtag or local parliament of their constituent states, and sometimes to the parliamentary assemblies of other states of Eastern Europe, of Japan, etc.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > [noun] > meeting of

Augsburg1560

diet1565

Reichstag1823

1565 T. Stapleton Fortresse of Faith f. 140 They haue had diets and assembles in Germany by the force and procurement of the Catholike Emperours.

1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 681 In Switzerland..if any great matter fall out, that is common to all the leagues, they hold their generall councell, called a Iourney, or a Diet.

1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. vii. 478/2 At an assembly or diet, where the greatest Princes and States of the Empire were in person.

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Diet (diæta) in Germany it is the same thing as a Parliament in England, a great Assembly or Council of the States and Princes of the Empire.

1687 J. Dryden Hind & Panther ii. 55 Thus wou'd your Polish Diet disagree, And end as it began in Anarchy.

1698 London Gaz. No. 3377/2 Several Deputies from the Palatinates in Lithuania..seem very desirous of a Dyet on Horseback.

1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 21. ⁋19 To assist at the Diet of the States of Hungary.

1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. IV. 235 Possibly a few of the most powerful princes might find their account in the dissolution of the Diet.

1814 F. Shoberl tr. J. Klaproth Trav. Caucasus & Georgia 66 The Poles assembled at the diet held in 1573 for the election of a new sovereign.

1836 J. Murray Hand-bk. for Travellers on Continent 405/1 The Diet meets to deliberate..in the building, formerly the palace of the Prince of Thurn and Taxis.

1838 Penny Cycl. XI. 192/2 The three colleges formed the diet of the empire, whose ordinary meetings were formerly summoned by the emperors twice a year.

1838 Penny Cycl. XI. 191/1 The central point and organ of the present Germanic Confederation is the Federative Diet, which sits at Frankfort on the Main.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 261 The meeting at Oxford resembled rather that of a Polish diet than that of an English parliament.

1871 Outl. Mod. Geog. 68 Frankfürt-on-the-Main, formerly a free city and seat of the Germanic Diet.

1895 Times (Weekly ed.) 29 Mar. 1/4 The Japanese Diet was closed on Wednesday.

1895 Times (Weekly ed.) 29 Mar. 2/4 The Lower House of the Prussian Diet..authorized its President to convey its congratulations to Prince Bismarck.

1895 Times (Weekly ed.) 29 Mar. 2/4 There is..no intention of dissolving the Imperial Diet.

a. The metal scraped or cut from gold and silver plate assayed day by day at the Mint, and retained for the purpose of trial.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > money > coining > [noun] > trial of purity or weight > metal kept for trial

prise1469

diet1700

1700–1 Act 12 & 13 William III c. 4 §4 It shall..be lawfull to detain Eight Grains only from every Pound Troy of Silver he shall assay, Four Grains whereof shall be put into the Box of Dyett.

1700–1 Act 12 & 13 William III c. 4 §5 That the Box or Boxes wherein the Diet of all such Plate as shall be tryed by the Assayers aforesaid shall be locked up with Three different Locks..And the said Diet therein contained shall be tryed as the Pix of the Coin of this Kingdom is tryed.

1772–3 Act 13 Geo. III c. 52 §6.

1883 Roberts & Hill in Encycl. Brit. XVI. 491/2 Another operation..performed in the mint is the assay of the ‘diet’ or metal scraped from the gold and silver plate manufactured at Sheffield and Birmingham.

1889 19th Rep. Deputy-Master of Mint 53 These diets, consisting of scrapings from gold and silver wares which have been hall-marked at the Assay offices.

b. attributive as diet-box.

ΚΠ

1835 P. Kelly Universal Cambist (new ed.) i. 219 The cuttings and scrapings of the articles assayed..are kept in what is called the Diet-box, in order to be melted into a mass and proved like the Pix, before the proper officers.

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dietv.

Forms: Middle English diȝete, Middle English diete, dyatt, Middle English–1600s dyet, 1500s diate, 1600s dyat, diett, diot, Middle English– diet.

Etymology: < Old French diete-r to feed, order the diet of (Godefroy), < diete diet n.¹: compare medieval Latin diætāre to live according to a certain plan (a1087 in Du Cange), < diæta.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈdiet.

I. transitive.

a. To feed, esp. in a particular way, or with specified kinds of food; to put (a person) to a specified diet.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feed or nourish [verb (transitive)] > feed with specific food

diet1362

put1620

gruel1804

pap-feed1809

chicken-broth1856

soup1857

1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. vii. 255 And ȝif þou diȝete þe þus I dar legge boþe myn Eres, Þat Fisyk schal his Forred hod, for his foode sulle.

c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 98 Voide him a litil and diete him with colde metis and stiptik.

1483 Cath. Angl. 99 To Diet, dietare.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ecclus. xxxvii. 34 He that dyeteth him self temperatly prolongeth his life.

1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iii. 63 My self I dieted with sloas.

1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. i. 3 He that taught Abel how to diet sheep.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 803 Dieted by thee I grow mature In knowledge, as the Gods who all things know.

1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews I. ii. xvii. 308 Who..diets them with all the dainty Food of Holiness?

1860 R. W. Emerson Considerations in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 240 It makes no difference, in looking back five years, how you have been dieted or dressed.

†b. (predicated of the food). Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 17 Dead Whales, Seales, Pengwins, grease or raw Puddings diet them.

c. figurative.

ΚΠ

1602 W. Warner Epitome Hist. Eng. in Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) 374 Onely his golden thoughts would not be worser Dioted than with a Diademe.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) iii. iv. 181 Thou art all the comfort The Gods will diet me with.

1670 J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy 6 You diet him with nothing but with Rules and Exceptions.

1816 S. T. Coleridge Statesman's Man. 47 That vast company.., whose heads and hearts are dieted at the two public ordinaries of Literature, the circulating libraries and the periodical press.

2. To fix, prescribe, or regulate the food of (a person, etc.) in nature or quantity, for a purpose. spec.

a. as a regimen of health.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatments by diet > treat by prescribed diet [verb (transitive)]

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c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 213 I dietide him as a man þat hadde a fever agu.

1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1822) v. 400 Eftir that the sick man has sufferit himself to be diet fra metis and drinkis.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) v. i. 100 I will attend my husband, be his nurse, Diet his sicknesse.

1641 J. Milton Animadversions 5 You are not dieted, nor your loynes girt for spirituall valour.

a1777 S. Foote Devil upon Two Sticks (1778) iii. 58 Full power..to pill..diet..and poultice, all persons.

1849 R. A. Vaughan in Brit. Q. Rev. May 312 Goethe..having dieted himself for hard work, was busy at Weimar with his ‘Faust’.

figurative.1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 301 These must be purged by dieting the State.?1706 E. Hickeringill Priest-craft: 2nd Pt. iv. 44 The Archbishoprick of York; and.., the Bishoprick of Ely (being both of them thought needlessly gross..) were dieted, some say, pinch'd and impaired too much.

b. as a punishment, etc.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > punishment > torture > [verb (transitive)] > by deprivation of food

diet1530

1530 W. Tyndale Pract. Prelates sig. Kvi After they had dieted and tormented him.

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 440. ¶6 The President immediately ordered him to be..dieted with Water gruel, till such time as he should be sufficiently weakened for Conversation.

1862 J. H. Burton Book-hunter (1863) 12 The simple privilege of locking him up, dieting him [etc.].

†3. figurative. To order, regulate. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > put in (proper) order [verb (transitive)] > order or regulate

regulate?a1425

order1509

diet1576

conform1602

drill1877

1576 J. Woolton Christian Man. sig. L.iiii In dyeting all our words and works to his honor & glorye.

4. To provide with daily meals; to board.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feed or nourish [verb (transitive)] > supply with meals

table1457

common1598

board1600

diet1635

mess1811

1635 J. Sadler in Verney Papers (1853) 160 His men maye..be taken of his hande and dyated for theyre worke for the first yeare.

a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) London 209 Tower Prisoners were not dyeted on their own, but on the Kings charges.

a1713 T. Ellwood Hist. Life (1714) 235 I..was dieted in the House of a Friendly Man.

1732 Acc. Workhouses 111 We have 20 men and women..lodg'd and dieted here.

1751 S. Whatley England's Gazetteer at Thingdon A ch. sc. for 20 girls, who are cloathed, lodged and dieted.

II. intransitive.

a. To take one's ordinary food, or meals; to feed (on).

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eat [verb (intransitive)]

eatc825

to break breadeOE

baitc1386

feeda1387

to take one's repast?1490

to take repast1517

repast1520

peck?1536

diet1566

meat1573

victual1577

graze1579

manger1609

to craw it1708

grub1725

scoff1798

browse1818

provender1819

muckamuck1853

to put on the nosebag1874

refect1882

restaurate1882

nosh1892

tucker1903

to muck in1919

scarf1960

snack1972

1566 T. Drant tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. Biiij Haste thou, a frende, that dyets harde?

1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. i. 23 Where the Canons live togither, they go each man to diet at his owne house.

1647 T. Fuller Good Thoughts in Worse Times iii. viii. 116 At what Ordinary or rather Extraordinary do they diet?

a1734 R. North Lives of Norths I. 192 He kept no house in town, but ordinarily dieted in the Temple.

1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. xxiv. 522 Neither worm, which diets on the brave In battle fall'n, hath eaten him, or taint Invaded.

1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present ii. xv. 150 Those four-and-twenty young bloods dieted all that day..with the Lord Abbot.

b. To board (with a person, at, in a house, etc.).

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating in specific conditions > eat in specific conditions [verb (intransitive)] > eat in company

dieta1587

common1598

to keep (also enter, come into, etc.) commons1598

mess1701

partake1844

a1587 L. Aldersey in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1589) i. 181 There we lay, and dieted of free cost.

1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. iii. i. 205 They were to diet at the Carriers charge.

1656 J. Hammond Leah & Rachel (1844) 15 To dyet and quarter in another mans house.

1703 R. Thoresby Diary I. 411 We lodged and dieted with him at Mr. Lamplugh's.

1802 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 370/2 A young man..who dieted and lodged in the house, has been apprehended on suspicion.

6. To regulate oneself as to diet; to eat according to prescribed rules, i.e. as to the kind of food, the quantity and time of eating, and the like.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > following specific diet > follow specific diet [verb (intransitive)]

diet1660

1660 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. III. i. 4 He first taught Wrestlers,..to diet with flesh.

1749 J. Wesley Acct. School at Kingswood 5 They diet thus: Breakfast, Milk-porridge and Water-gruel, by Turns.

1893 Strand Mag. 6 215/1 She dieted as carefully as if she had been a dyspeptic in ruins.

Derivatives

ˈdieted adj. subjected to a regimen of diet.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatments by diet > [adjective]

dieted1605

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. C2 There will bee seldome vse of..Phisicke in a sound or well dieted bodie.

1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. i. 8 Idle heads have made these addle proverbs. 1. Dieted bodies are but bridges to Physicians mindes.

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n.²c1440

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单词	diet
释义	dietn.¹ Brit. /ˈdʌɪət/, U.S. /ˈdaɪət/ Forms: Middle English–1500s diete, (Middle English diat, dyette, Middle English–1500s dyete, diette), Middle English–1700s dyet, (1500s diot, dyot, dyat, dieat, dyeat), Middle English– diet. Etymology: < Old French diete (13th cent. in Hatzfeld & Darmesteter), = Spanish dieta, Portuguese dieta, Italian dieta, < Latin diæta (in medieval Latin diēta), < Greek δίαιτα ‘mode of life’. (Supposed to be connected with ζάειν to live: see Meyer Gr. Gram. §261.) †1. Course of life: way of living or thinking. of the same diet, of a different diet, both of a diet, i.e. sort or kind. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > way of life > [noun] lifeeOE lifewayOE livelihoodOE livingc1350 dietc1460 tradec1485 use1488 daily life1516 way of living1516 governmenta1616 way of lifea1616 tread1628 mode1758 c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn l. 1431 Ech day our diete Shall be mery & solase, & this shall be for-ȝete. 1567 Triall of Treasure sig. Dii^v Beholde howe a lie can please some folkes diet. 1615 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. III. O.T. x. 201 Either this was the Sonne himself..or else one..of the same diet. 1618 Bp. J. Hall Righteovs Mammon 7 Francis of Assise and hee, were both of a Diet. 1620 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. V. O.T. xiv. 131 Worldly mindes thinke no man can bee of any other, then their owne diet. a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 255 The mindes of men may be of a different diet. 2. esp. Customary course of living as to food: way of feeding. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > diet > [noun] > customary diet dietc1386 c1386 G. Chaucer Pardoner's Tale 188 He wolde been the moore mesurable Of his diete sittynge at his table. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) iv. l. 333 Off dyet fayr Wallace tuk neuir kepe Bot as it come welcum was meit and sleip. 1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. xiii. sig. Fvi He wyll..enquire, what skyll he hath in feedyng, called diete, and kepyng of his hauke from all sickenes. 1625 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated ii. xv. 259 Scarcity..invites the mountaine dwellers to a more sparing and wholesome diet. 1774 J. Bryant New Syst. II. 261 He brought mankind from their foul and savage way of feeding to a more mild and rational diet. 1838 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella II. ii. v. 390 He maintained the same abstemious diet, amidst all the luxuries of his table. 1866 D. Livingstone 23 Dec. in Last Jrnls. (1874) I. vii. 162 A meat diet is far from satisfying. 3. Prescribed course of food, restricted in kind or limited in quantity, esp. for medical or penal reasons; regimen. Hence to put to a diet (French mettre à la diète), to keep or take diet (French observer une diète). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > diet > [noun] > prescribed diet dietc1386 dietaryc1450 elimination diet1928 c1386 G. Chaucer Nun's Priest's Tale 18 No deyntee morsel passed thurgh hir throte..Attempree diete was al hir phisik. c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 72 Þe firste tretis is of gouernaunce & diete of men þat ben woundid. c1440 Gesta Romanorum (Add. MS.) xix. 334 There was a man-sleer taken, and put into prison, and put to his diete. 1495 Act II Hen. VII c. 2 §1 He to be sette..in Stokkis by the space of vj daies with like diete as is before reherced. a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. M.vij^v The ydeotte kepeth diete from bookes and resteth on his meate. a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) ii. i. 23 To fast, like one that takes diet . View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) ii. i. 109 Past cure of the thing you wot of, vnlesse they kept very good diet . View more context for this quotation 1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. i. 1 I define Diet..to be an orderly and due course observed in the use of bodily nourishments. 1727 J. Arbuthnot John Bull in J. Swift et al. Misc. in Prose & Verse II. 210 He..by Diet, Purging, Vomiting, and Bleeding, try'd to bring them to equal Bulk. 1741 S. Johnson in Gentleman's Mag. July 376 To preach Diet and Abstinence to his Patients. 1841 M. Elphinstone Hist. India I. App. iii. 455 They rely most on diet and regimen, and next, on external applications. 4. Food; the provisions or victuals in daily use, viewed as a collective whole, especially in relation to their quality and effects. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > [noun] meateOE eatOE foodOE fodderOE dietc1230 gista1290 victual1303 victualsa1375 preya1382 feedinga1398 pasturea1398 viancea1400 viandsc1400 livingc1405 meatingc1425 vitalyc1440 vianda1450 cates1461 vivers1536 viandry1542 viander1543 gut-matter1549 peck1567 belly-cheer1579 appast1580 manchet1583 chat1584 belly-metal1590 repasture1598 cibaries1599 belly-timber1607 belly-cheat1608 peckage1610 victuallage1622 keeping1644 vivresa1650 crib1652 prog1655 grub1659 beef1661 fooding1663 teething1673 eatablea1687 sunket1686 yam1788 chow-chow1795 keep1801 feed1818 grubbing1819 patter1824 ninyam1826 nyam1828 grubbery1831 tack1834 kai1845 mungaree1846 scoff1846 foodstuff1847 chuck1850 muckamuck1852 tuck1857 tucker1858 hash1865 nosh1873 jock1879 cake flour1881 chow1886 nosebag1888 stodge1890 food aid1900 tackle1900 munga1907 scarf1932 grubber1959 c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 61 Understondeð þet dei hwuch wes his diete. i þe ilke blodletunge se baleful & se bitter. 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) vii. lv. 268 In chyldern the vryne is thycke by cause of gleymy diete. c1420 Anturs of Arth. xv With alle dayntethis on dese, thi dietis are diȝte. a1575 N. Harpsfield Treat. Divorce Henry VIII (1878) (modernized text) 202 Kept in prison with coarse and thin diet. 1578 J. Lyly Euphues f. 50^v That the babe bee..not fed with counterfaite diet. a1682 Sir T. Browne Certain Misc. Tracts (1684) 17 The Athletick Diet was of Pulse. 1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. May (1965) I. 410 Herbs or Roots (without oil) and plain dry Bread. This is their Lenten diet. 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xiv. 144 The dogs were too much distended by their abundant diet to move. 1868 W. E. Gladstone Juventus Mundi (1870) v. 128 Nay, even a change of diet confronts us..the ox ceases to be used as food. b.figurative.1579 S. Gosson Schoole of Abuse f. 23^v Yet are they [sc. plays] not fit for euery mans dyet.1823 C. Lamb Sonn. Sydney in Elia 2nd Ser. A thin diet of dainty words. †5. a. An allowance or provision of food. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > supply of food or provisions > rations > [noun] liverisona1325 ordinary1481 allowance1526 diet1533 commons1541 common1638 ration1687 dietary1838 1533 Ord. Hen. VIII in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. II. 30 We..commaunde you to alloue dailly from hensforth unto..the Lady Lucye..the dyat and fare herafter ensuyng. 1611 Bible (King James) Jer. lii. 34 And for his diet, there was a continuall diet [ Coverd. lyuynge] giuen him..euery day a portion [ Cov. a certayne thinge alowed him] . View more context for this quotation 1671 F. Philipps Regale Necessarium 370 The young Lords or Nobility had a constant Table or dyet in the Court. a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1663 (1955) III. 360 It was saied it should be the last of the publique Diets or Tables at Court. †b. Board. Obsolete exc. Historical. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > supply of food or provisions > [noun] > board boardc1386 mangeryc1400 diet1455 table-board1860 1455 Rolls of Parl. 293 The said Prince shall sojorne and be at diettez with the Kyng. 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iii. iii. 72 You owe mony here, besides sir Iohn, for your diet . View more context for this quotation 1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. i. 98 Yong Fortenbrasse..Hath..Sharkt vp a sight of lawlesse Resolutes For food and diet. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. iii. xv. 173 He shall haue..10 [pound] per annum, and his diet. 1645 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) I. 204 Here many of the merchants..have their lodging and diet as in a College. 1793 N. Chipman Rep. & Diss. i. 50 The bond was taken..for the prisoner's..diet, and to secure the Gaoler's fees. 1878 R. Simpson School of Shakspere I. 74 The king..gave him 3,000 ducats more, besides the daily expenses of his lodging and diet. †6. Allowance for the expenses of living. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > grants and allowances > [noun] > allowance > for specific purpose > for food or maintenance meatcorn1264 corrody1430 sustentation1461 dieta1483 diet-money1519 board wages1539 viaticum1594 subsistence money1693 table allowance1762 board-money1809 subsistence allowance1824 beer money1827 in-maintenance1836 subsistence allowance1848 conred1876 sustenance money1905 rider1975 a1483 Liber Niger in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 24 This must cause her comyn diette to be the more for the high estate of her proper person. 1535 Act 27 Hen. VIII c. 27 Suche like diettes, rewardes, profites and commodities..for their attendance vpon the saide Chauncellour. c1540 Bp. Bonner in Wyatt's Poems Pref. (1854) 41 If he were a good husband, the diets of iiij marks would find his house..after a far other sort than it is kept. 1551 R. Moryson Let. 20 Jan. (P.R.O. SP 68/6) f. 263 Is my land so increast sins my cummyng out..that men do thynke I may serue the Kyng with out my dyettes? 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xxiv. 236 Common~wealths can endure no diet; seeing their expense is not limited by their own appetite, but by external accidents. 1885 R. W. Dixon Hist. Church Eng. (1893) III. xix. 338 The allowances of the ambassador, or, as they were called, his diets, were ever unpaid.] 7. Used attributively of (esp. carbonated soft) drinks with reduced sugar content sold commercially, as diet cola, diet Pepsi, etc. Originally U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > aerated or carbonated drink > [adjective] > diet drink diet1963 1963 Newsweek 8 July 76/3 Pepsi introduced its Patio Diet Cola..and Coke its Tab..only days apart this year. 1964 Business Week 27 June 90/3 Patio Diet Cola was not the success Pepsi had hoped, so it has rushed to market a new drink, Diet Pepsi. 1966 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 29 Nov. tm237 PepsiCo, Inc., New York... Diet Pepsi. 1969 New Yorker 25 Oct. 58/2 She loves diet cola spiked with a spoonful of chocolate syrup. 1970 New Yorker 24 Oct. 58 (caption) They open flip-top can..Diet Pepsi. 1985 Washington Post 18 Sept. e21/6 The third- and fourth-fastest-growing items were breakfast sandwiches and diet colas. Compounds C1. General attributive. diet-bag n. ΚΠ 1669 W. Simpson Hydrologia Chymica 162 Heaps of plants by some physicians are ordered to stuff diet-bags withal. diet-list n. ΚΠ 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. I. i. 19 A very moderate supply of liquors..made up the diet-list. diet-money n. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > grants and allowances > [noun] > allowance > for specific purpose > for food or maintenance meatcorn1264 corrody1430 sustentation1461 dieta1483 diet-money1519 board wages1539 viaticum1594 subsistence money1693 table allowance1762 board-money1809 subsistence allowance1824 beer money1827 in-maintenance1836 subsistence allowance1848 conred1876 sustenance money1905 rider1975 1519 Sir T. Boleyn in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. I. 161 Send me such dyett-money as shall best please your Grace. 1551 Sir R. Moryson Let. 7 Jan. (P.R.O. SP 68/6) f. 245 I mervayl my dieat mony cummith not. 1727 A. Hamilton New Acct. E. Indies I. vii. 74 Allow them as much Diet money as their own Soldiers receive. C2. Also diet-book n., diet-drink n. diet-bread n. special bread prepared for invalids or persons under dietetic regimen. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > bread > [noun] > other types of bread sergeant-loafa1348 clear-matin1362 bean-breadc1380 French bread1420 pease-breada1425 bran-breadc1425 grey breadc1430 angels' breadc1440 dough bread?a1500 baker's bread?1550 acorn bread1571 cart-bread1574 chapter-bread1600 diet-bread1617 ember-bread1681 buff coat1688 bust-coat1706 Picentine bread1712 chestnut-bread1814 naan1828 gluten-bread1846 to-bread1854 batch-bread1862 injera1868 coffee cake1879 pan dulce1882 quick bread1882 sour bread1884 Tommy1895 focaccia1905 hard-dough bread1911 hush puppy1918 potica1927 spoon bread1932 bake1933 pitta1936 hard-dough1966 pain de campagne1970 pocket bread1973 ciabatta1985 pain au levain1985 levain1991 1617 S. Collins Epphata to F. T. ii. ix. 357 To feede them with such dirt for diet-bread. 1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village I. 238 Three inferior servants were..drinking her green tea, eating her diet-bread, begging her gowns. diet-kitchen n. (see quot. 1880). ΚΠ 1880 Webster's Dict. Suppl. Diet-kitchen, a charitable establishment which provides proper food for the helpless poor. † diet-pot n. Obsolete a pot by which to measure diet-drink. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > cooking vessel or pot > [noun] > other types of pot or pan olla1535 pipkin1554 marmite1581 diet-pot1617 pipkinet1647 chocolate pot1676 gotch1691 lead1741 puchero1791 steamer1814 bake pot1822 kedgeree-pot1824 braising-pan1825 handi1847 craggan1880 yabba1889 sufuria1891 dixie1900 Revere1901 pressure cooker1914 pressure saucepan1940 li1945 wok1952 li ting1958 firepot1959 fondue pot1959 tian1978 1617 J. Woodall Surgions Mate 35 The Dyet Pot is not alone to be vsed in cases of dyet drinke. diet-sheet n. a paper showing a daily diet, esp. for the inmates of an institution. ΚΠ c1863 F. Nightingale in C. Woodham-Smith F. Nightingale (1950) xvii. 397 Revised diet sheets for Troop-Ships. 1902 J. H. M. Abbott Tommy Cornstalk 182 We all lay in, or upon, our beds with our board-mounted diet-sheets in our hands. 1918 W. Owen Let. 22 July (1967) 566 I see an old Diet Sheet on the table. 1967 Vogue Jan. 51/1 This is the Diet sheet. Vary meat, eggs, chicken and fish..to avoid boredom. † diet-wood n. Obsolete (see quot. 1568). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > preparations treating or preventing specific ailments > [noun] > for venereal disease or syphilis > plant-derived diet-wood1568 pockwood1590 teamster's tea1728 iodipin1899 1568 W. Turner Herbal iii. 34 Guiacum..Some call it the Diet woode because they that kepe a diet for the French poxe..most commonly drinke the broth of this woode. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online December 2020). dietn.² Brit. /ˈdʌɪət/, U.S. /ˈdaɪət/ Etymology: < medieval Latin diēta in same senses, or < French diète in sense 5 (Cotgrave 1611): compare also Italian dieta ‘a parliament or generall assembly of estates’ (Florio, 1598), Spanish dieta the (Germanic) diet. Medieval Latin diēta had the various senses ‘day's journey’, ‘day's work’, ‘day's wage’, ‘space of a day’, as well as that of ‘assembly, meeting of councillors, diet of the empire’. The same senses, more or less, are (or have been) expressed by German tag , and French journée day. Diēta has therefore been viewed as a simple derivative of Latin dies day (see diurnal adj. and n.), distinct fromdiæta , Greek δίαιτα , diet n.¹ But it seems more likely that one or other of the senses developed < diæta was associated with dies, and led to the application of the word to other uses arising directly < dies. One of the senses given by Du Cange is ‘the ordinary course of the church’: this seems naturally transferred < δίαιτα, diæta, in the sense ‘ordinary or prescribed course of life’, which might be understood to mean ‘daily office’, and so lead to the use of diēta for other daily courses, duties, or occasions. †1. A day's journey; ‘an excursion, a journey’ (Jamieson). Obsolete chiefly Scottish. (So French journée.) ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > a day's journey a day's gangOE journeyc1290 dayc1390 day ganga1400 day journey?a1425 dietc1440 journal1617 c1290 Fleta iv. xxviii. §13 (Du Cange) Omnis rationabilis dieta constat ex 20 miliaribus.] c1440 Gesta Romanorum (Harl.) xix. 67 Also how many daies iourneys... This terme or this dyet, is not ellis but the terme of thi lyfe. c1565 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1814) 212 (Jam.) Sum of the conspiratouris, who hard tell of the kingis dyett, followed fast to Leith eftir him. 1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem 143 Twa or thrie gude men of the Gilde sall travell with him for twa dyets. a1651 D. Calderwood Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1678) 248 (Jam.) The king..prayeth him to waken up all men to attend his coming..for his diet would be sooner perhaps than was looked for. †2. A day's work. Scottish. Obsolete. (So French journée.) ΚΠ 1494 in T. Dickson Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1877) I. 246 Item, to Thome Red and Jhone of Schipe, for vj diet at the wod, vj s. 3. Categories » a. Scottish. A day fixed for a particular meeting or assembly; an appointed date or time. b. spec. The day on which a party in a civil or criminal process is cited to appear in court. More fully diet of appearance, diet of compearance. (So Old French journée.) ΚΠ 1568 in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlvii. 80 Gif he cumis nocht thair, I wald we tuke, To keip oure dyet, Maister Dauid Makgill. 1640 in J. Nicholson Minute Bk. War Comm. Covenanters Kirkcudbright 13 Nov. (1855) 93 To compeir befoire the said Committie of Estaites..and that to anie day or diet the said Commissares or Collectores shall pleis to charge thame to. 1692 King William III Addit. Instr. to Sir T. Livingstone 16 Jan. in J. M'Conechy Papers Illustr. Polit. Condition Highlands (1845) 65 These who have not taken the benefite of our indemnity..within the dyet prefixed by our proclamation. 1692 A. Symson Large Descr. Galloway (1823) 26 A market for good fat kine [is] kept on the Friday..this market being rul'd by the dyets of the nolt-market of Wigton. 1708 Chamberlayne's Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (1743) ii. ii. vi. 391 Having obtained a Dyet, i.e. a set day for his publick trial. 1752 J. Louthian Form of Process (ed. 2) 9 All the Diets of Court are peremptory. 1810 Act 50 Geo. III c. 112 §27 In actions at present requiring two diets of appearance against persons within Scotland, there shall be only one diet of twenty-seven days. †c. Date, day of date. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1588 A. King tr. P. Canisius Cathechisme or Schort Instr. 9 To raise [= erase] the diett off an instrumente. 4. a. Scottish. A session or sitting of a court or other body on an appointed day; a single session of any assembly occupying a day or part of one. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > [noun] > sitting of sittingc1410 session1444 access1587 diet1587 session1613 sederunt1628 seat1635 séance1789 1587 Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1599) §82 Called..before the justice or his deputes at iustice aires, or particular diettes. 1637 G. Gillespie Dispute against Eng.-Popish Ceremonies iii. i. 13 At the diets of weekly and ordinary preaching. 1643 J. Row Hist. Kirk Scotl. (1842) p. xxi I attendit many dayes and dyetts, and in end..a decreit was gifine thereupon. 1854 H. Keddie Phemie Millar II. 21 He's put on his Sabbath day claes..and sat out the haill diet. 1854 H. Miller Schools & Schoolmasters (1857) iii. 48 I began to dole out to them by the hour and the diet, long extempore biographies. 1876 J. Grant Hist. Burgh Schools Scotl. ii. iv. 147 In the week preceding, the classes shall be tried at two different diets by examiners appointed by the town Council. 1894 S. R. Crockett Raiders 25 Who met statedly for their diets of worship at Springholm. b. to call the diet: to call the parties to an action in court on the appointed day. to desert the diet: see desert v. 4. ΚΠ 1753 Scots Mag. Sept. 469/1 The diet was deserted as to Cameron. 1850 J. S. Blackie tr. Æschylus Lyrical Dramas I. 217 Herald, proclaim the diet, and command The people to attention. 1893 Daily News 28 Dec. 5/4 Outlawry is a sentence pronounced in the Supreme Criminal Court of Scotland in the absence of the accused at the calling of the diet, that is, the day on which he is summoned to appear and stand his trial. 5. a. A meeting by formal appointment for conference or transaction of national or international business; a conference, congress, convention. (In later use generally influenced by b.) (So Old French journée.) ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > conferring or consulting > a conference > particular types of parliament?a1400 diet1471 symposiac1603 by-conference1625 guestling1629 sanhedrim1653 comitia1684 symposium1784 assembly1794 powwow1812 neighbourhood meeting1823 colloquium1861 congress1861 party conference1875 indaba1894 press conference1908 case conference1913 story conference1920 telemeeting1973 poster session1974 START1981 presser1988 1471 in Rymer State Papers 717 It is Appointed..that the Twenty fourth Day of September next comeyng, at the Towne of Alnewyke, shall be kept a Dyet, by the grete Commissioners of both Landes, for Reforming of the said Wrongs and Injuries. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. clxxxxv^v After Easter was a daye of Diot holden bytwene Grauenynge & Calays for matyers touchynge the kynge and the duke of Burgoyne. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. ciii A daye of dyet was atwene the two Kynges [of England and France] appoyntyd. a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 280 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 103 Yai counsall ye pape to writ in yis wyss To ye Athile empriour..To adress to yat dyet to deme his awyss. 1598 R. Hakluyt tr. W. Esturmy & J. Kington in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. 156 There was demaunded, in the first dyet or conuention holden at Dordract, a recompense at the handes of the sayd English ambassadors. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxxv. xxv. 902 The Achæans..published a Diet and generall Counsell at Sicyone. 1879 J. A. Froude Cæsar xiv. 209 A diet of chiefs was held under Cæsar's presidency. b. spec. Applied to the regular meeting of the estates of a realm or confederation; hence also collectively to the estates or representatives so meeting (cf. congress n.). The English name (from end of the 16th cent.) of the former Reichstag of the (German) Roman Empire, and of the federal or national assemblies of Switzerland, Poland, Hungary, etc.; later of the Bundestag of the Germanic Confederation (1815–66); applied also to the Reichstag or Imperial Parliament of the Austro-Hungarian and German Empires, and the Landtag or local parliament of their constituent states, and sometimes to the parliamentary assemblies of other states of Eastern Europe, of Japan, etc. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > [noun] > meeting of Augsburg1560 diet1565 Reichstag1823 1565 T. Stapleton Fortresse of Faith f. 140 They haue had diets and assembles in Germany by the force and procurement of the Catholike Emperours. 1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 681 In Switzerland..if any great matter fall out, that is common to all the leagues, they hold their generall councell, called a Iourney, or a Diet. 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. vii. 478/2 At an assembly or diet, where the greatest Princes and States of the Empire were in person. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Diet (diæta) in Germany it is the same thing as a Parliament in England, a great Assembly or Council of the States and Princes of the Empire. 1687 J. Dryden Hind & Panther ii. 55 Thus wou'd your Polish Diet disagree, And end as it began in Anarchy. 1698 London Gaz. No. 3377/2 Several Deputies from the Palatinates in Lithuania..seem very desirous of a Dyet on Horseback. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 21. ⁋19 To assist at the Diet of the States of Hungary. 1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. IV. 235 Possibly a few of the most powerful princes might find their account in the dissolution of the Diet. 1814 F. Shoberl tr. J. Klaproth Trav. Caucasus & Georgia 66 The Poles assembled at the diet held in 1573 for the election of a new sovereign. 1836 J. Murray Hand-bk. for Travellers on Continent 405/1 The Diet meets to deliberate..in the building, formerly the palace of the Prince of Thurn and Taxis. 1838 Penny Cycl. XI. 192/2 The three colleges formed the diet of the empire, whose ordinary meetings were formerly summoned by the emperors twice a year. 1838 Penny Cycl. XI. 191/1 The central point and organ of the present Germanic Confederation is the Federative Diet, which sits at Frankfort on the Main. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. 261 The meeting at Oxford resembled rather that of a Polish diet than that of an English parliament. 1871 Outl. Mod. Geog. 68 Frankfürt-on-the-Main, formerly a free city and seat of the Germanic Diet. 1895 Times (Weekly ed.) 29 Mar. 1/4 The Japanese Diet was closed on Wednesday. 1895 Times (Weekly ed.) 29 Mar. 2/4 The Lower House of the Prussian Diet..authorized its President to convey its congratulations to Prince Bismarck. 1895 Times (Weekly ed.) 29 Mar. 2/4 There is..no intention of dissolving the Imperial Diet. 6. a. The metal scraped or cut from gold and silver plate assayed day by day at the Mint, and retained for the purpose of trial. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > coining > [noun] > trial of purity or weight > metal kept for trial prise1469 diet1700 1700–1 Act 12 & 13 William III c. 4 §4 It shall..be lawfull to detain Eight Grains only from every Pound Troy of Silver he shall assay, Four Grains whereof shall be put into the Box of Dyett. 1700–1 Act 12 & 13 William III c. 4 §5 That the Box or Boxes wherein the Diet of all such Plate as shall be tryed by the Assayers aforesaid shall be locked up with Three different Locks..And the said Diet therein contained shall be tryed as the Pix of the Coin of this Kingdom is tryed. 1772–3 Act 13 Geo. III c. 52 §6. 1883 Roberts & Hill in Encycl. Brit. XVI. 491/2 Another operation..performed in the mint is the assay of the ‘diet’ or metal scraped from the gold and silver plate manufactured at Sheffield and Birmingham. 1889 19th Rep. Deputy-Master of Mint 53 These diets, consisting of scrapings from gold and silver wares which have been hall-marked at the Assay offices. b. attributive as diet-box. ΚΠ 1835 P. Kelly Universal Cambist (new ed.) i. 219 The cuttings and scrapings of the articles assayed..are kept in what is called the Diet-box, in order to be melted into a mass and proved like the Pix, before the proper officers. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2021). dietv. Forms: Middle English diȝete, Middle English diete, dyatt, Middle English–1600s dyet, 1500s diate, 1600s dyat, diett, diot, Middle English– diet. Etymology: < Old French diete-r to feed, order the diet of (Godefroy), < diete diet n.¹: compare medieval Latin diætāre to live according to a certain plan (a1087 in Du Cange), < diæta.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈdiet. I. transitive. 1. a. To feed, esp. in a particular way, or with specified kinds of food; to put (a person) to a specified diet. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feed or nourish [verb (transitive)] > feed with specific food diet1362 put1620 gruel1804 pap-feed1809 chicken-broth1856 soup1857 1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A. vii. 255 And ȝif þou diȝete þe þus I dar legge boþe myn Eres, Þat Fisyk schal his Forred hod, for his foode sulle. c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 98 Voide him a litil and diete him with colde metis and stiptik. 1483 Cath. Angl. 99 To Diet, dietare. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ecclus. xxxvii. 34 He that dyeteth him self temperatly prolongeth his life. 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iii. 63 My self I dieted with sloas. 1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. i. 3 He that taught Abel how to diet sheep. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 803 Dieted by thee I grow mature In knowledge, as the Gods who all things know. View more context for this quotation 1742 H. Fielding Joseph Andrews I. ii. xvii. 308 Who..diets them with all the dainty Food of Holiness? View more context for this quotation 1860 R. W. Emerson Considerations in Conduct of Life (London ed.) 240 It makes no difference, in looking back five years, how you have been dieted or dressed. †b. (predicated of the food). Obsolete. ΚΠ 1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 17 Dead Whales, Seales, Pengwins, grease or raw Puddings diet them. c. figurative. ΚΠ 1602 W. Warner Epitome Hist. Eng. in Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) 374 Onely his golden thoughts would not be worser Dioted than with a Diademe. a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) iii. iv. 181 Thou art all the comfort The Gods will diet me with. View more context for this quotation 1670 J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy 6 You diet him with nothing but with Rules and Exceptions. 1816 S. T. Coleridge Statesman's Man. 47 That vast company.., whose heads and hearts are dieted at the two public ordinaries of Literature, the circulating libraries and the periodical press. 2. To fix, prescribe, or regulate the food of (a person, etc.) in nature or quantity, for a purpose. spec. a. as a regimen of health. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatments by diet > treat by prescribed diet [verb (transitive)] dietc1400 c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 213 I dietide him as a man þat hadde a fever agu. 1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1822) v. 400 Eftir that the sick man has sufferit himself to be diet fra metis and drinkis. a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) v. i. 100 I will attend my husband, be his nurse, Diet his sicknesse. View more context for this quotation 1641 J. Milton Animadversions 5 You are not dieted, nor your loynes girt for spirituall valour. a1777 S. Foote Devil upon Two Sticks (1778) iii. 58 Full power..to pill..diet..and poultice, all persons. 1849 R. A. Vaughan in Brit. Q. Rev. May 312 Goethe..having dieted himself for hard work, was busy at Weimar with his ‘Faust’. figurative.1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 301 These must be purged by dieting the State.?1706 E. Hickeringill Priest-craft: 2nd Pt. iv. 44 The Archbishoprick of York; and.., the Bishoprick of Ely (being both of them thought needlessly gross..) were dieted, some say, pinch'd and impaired too much. b. as a punishment, etc. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > torture > [verb (transitive)] > by deprivation of food diet1530 1530 W. Tyndale Pract. Prelates sig. Kvi After they had dieted and tormented him. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 440. ¶6 The President immediately ordered him to be..dieted with Water gruel, till such time as he should be sufficiently weakened for Conversation. 1862 J. H. Burton Book-hunter (1863) 12 The simple privilege of locking him up, dieting him [etc.]. †3. figurative. To order, regulate. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > put in (proper) order [verb (transitive)] > order or regulate regulate?a1425 order1509 diet1576 conform1602 drill1877 1576 J. Woolton Christian Man. sig. L.iiii In dyeting all our words and works to his honor & glorye. 4. To provide with daily meals; to board. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feed or nourish [verb (transitive)] > supply with meals table1457 common1598 board1600 diet1635 mess1811 1635 J. Sadler in Verney Papers (1853) 160 His men maye..be taken of his hande and dyated for theyre worke for the first yeare. a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) London 209 Tower Prisoners were not dyeted on their own, but on the Kings charges. a1713 T. Ellwood Hist. Life (1714) 235 I..was dieted in the House of a Friendly Man. 1732 Acc. Workhouses 111 We have 20 men and women..lodg'd and dieted here. 1751 S. Whatley England's Gazetteer at Thingdon A ch. sc. for 20 girls, who are cloathed, lodged and dieted. II. intransitive. 5. a. To take one's ordinary food, or meals; to feed (on). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eat [verb (intransitive)] eatc825 to break breadeOE baitc1386 feeda1387 to take one's repast?1490 to take repast1517 repast1520 peck?1536 diet1566 meat1573 victual1577 graze1579 manger1609 to craw it1708 grub1725 scoff1798 browse1818 provender1819 muckamuck1853 to put on the nosebag1874 refect1882 restaurate1882 nosh1892 tucker1903 to muck in1919 scarf1960 snack1972 1566 T. Drant tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. Biiij Haste thou, a frende, that dyets harde? 1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. i. 23 Where the Canons live togither, they go each man to diet at his owne house. 1647 T. Fuller Good Thoughts in Worse Times iii. viii. 116 At what Ordinary or rather Extraordinary do they diet? a1734 R. North Lives of Norths I. 192 He kept no house in town, but ordinarily dieted in the Temple. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. xxiv. 522 Neither worm, which diets on the brave In battle fall'n, hath eaten him, or taint Invaded. 1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present ii. xv. 150 Those four-and-twenty young bloods dieted all that day..with the Lord Abbot. b. To board (with a person, at, in a house, etc.). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating in specific conditions > eat in specific conditions [verb (intransitive)] > eat in company dieta1587 common1598 to keep (also enter, come into, etc.) commons1598 mess1701 partake1844 a1587 L. Aldersey in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations (1589) i. 181 There we lay, and dieted of free cost. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. iii. i. 205 They were to diet at the Carriers charge. 1656 J. Hammond Leah & Rachel (1844) 15 To dyet and quarter in another mans house. 1703 R. Thoresby Diary I. 411 We lodged and dieted with him at Mr. Lamplugh's. 1802 Chron. in Ann. Reg. 370/2 A young man..who dieted and lodged in the house, has been apprehended on suspicion. 6. To regulate oneself as to diet; to eat according to prescribed rules, i.e. as to the kind of food, the quantity and time of eating, and the like. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > following specific diet > follow specific diet [verb (intransitive)] diet1660 1660 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. III. i. 4 He first taught Wrestlers,..to diet with flesh. 1749 J. Wesley Acct. School at Kingswood 5 They diet thus: Breakfast, Milk-porridge and Water-gruel, by Turns. 1893 Strand Mag. 6 215/1 She dieted as carefully as if she had been a dyspeptic in ruins. Derivatives ˈdieted adj. subjected to a regimen of diet. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > treatments by diet > [adjective] dieted1605 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning i. sig. C2 There will bee seldome vse of..Phisicke in a sound or well dieted bodie. View more context for this quotation 1655 T. Moffett & C. Bennet Healths Improvem. i. 8 Idle heads have made these addle proverbs. 1. Dieted bodies are but bridges to Physicians mindes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.¹c1230n.²c1440v.1362
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