单词 | to put to a diet |
释义 | > as lemmasto put to a diet 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.vijv 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. < as lemmas |
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