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dietary, n. and a.|ˈdaɪətərɪ|
Also 5 diatorie.
[ad. L. diætāri-us, in med.L. diētāri-us adj. and n., also diētārium n., in various applications, f. L. diæta, diēta: see diet n.1 and n.2, and -ary.]
A. n.
1. A course of diet prescribed or marked out; a book or treatise prescribing such a course.
c1430A Diatorie in Babees Bk. (1868) 54 To be rulid bi þis diatorie do þi diligence, For it techiþ good diete & good gouernaunce. 1542Boorde (title), A Compendyous Regyment or a Dyetary of Helth. Ibid. (1870) 231 Here foloweth the dyetary or the regyment of helth. 1570Levins Manip. 104/1 A Dietarie, dietarium. 1860–1F. Nightingale Nursing 52 Careful observation of the sick is the only clue to the best dietary.
fig.1879G. Meredith Egoist iv. (1889) 26 Patience..is a composing but a lean Dietary.
2. An allowance and regulation of food, as for the inmates of a hospital, workhouse, or prison.
1838Dickens O. Twist ii, Do I understand that he asked for more, after he had eaten the supper allotted by the dietary? 1861Wynter Soc. Bees 202 It is clear, then, that the prevalent sea-dietary is a degrading dietary; it is deficient in the albumen, the soluble phosphates..necessary to sustain vigorous life. 1884Daily News 19 Dec. 3/3 The introduction of fish dinners into the workhouse dietaries appears..to have been eminently successful.
B. adj. Of or pertaining to diet, of the nature of a diet.
b. Of or belonging to a dietary.
1614W. B. Philosopher's Banquet (ed. 2.) 19 There are dietary times and hours. 1655Moufet & Bennet Health's Improv. (1746) 71 Albeit there lived no dietary Physicians before the Flood. 1844Disraeli Coningsby iii. iii, Lord Henry would not listen to statistics, dietary tables. 1863Hawthorne Our Old Home (1879) 208 The ancient fishing-ponds..of vast dietary importance to the family. 1889J. Barr in Times 9 Mar. 16/1 Dietary punishment..inflicted for breaches of prison discipline.
Add:[B.] [a.] dietary fibre (see *fibre n. 4 d). |