单词 | water diet |
释义 | > as lemmaswater diet k. Relating to the drinking of water (sometimes spec. with reference to abstinence from alcohol), as water day, water diet, water doctrine, etc. ΚΠ ?c1450 in G. J. Aungier Hist. & Antiq. Syon Monastery (1840) 384 Than suche as haue nede may drynke euery day in the ȝere, outake water dayes, ffor than none schal drynke but water, withe oute special licence of the abbes. 1710 J. Floyer Pulse Watch II. xix. 134 Whatsoever decays the Circulation, produces the abundant quantity of crude Chyle and Serum, as Water-diet, great Evacuations of Blood, and Chronical Diseases. 1843 W. H. C. West & W. West (title) The water pledge. 1854 W. M. Thackeray J. Leech's Pictures in Wks. (1900) XIII. 484 George..has taken to the water-doctrine, as all the world knows. 1877 J. R. Kaighin in Onward Reciter 6 67 ‘What! Charley Rivers, drink you not In honour of my boy, your friend?’ The hostess cried... And one did sneer ‘Oh, Charley's one Of those deluded water folk.’ 1886 Proc. Sanitary Convent. Big Rapids (Michigan) 17 On the first two days [of drinking brandy] he thought he worked as well as on water days, but on the third day he had palpitation of the heart. 1925 R. Graves Welchman's Hose 9 Our feeding and our water-time, Our breeding and our slaughter-time. 1973 New Scientist 22 Mar. 676/3 Over the years medical entrepreneurs have readily catered to this desire by concocting a number of specialised diets, such as the drinking man's diet, the water diet, and the grapefruit diet. 2002 E. Adamson Everything Stress Managem. Bk. 38 Take a water day. Don't drink anything but water all day long. < as lemmas |
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