diet1 (diet)

[ = D. diëet G. diät = IMG:content-2602.jpg:[blocks in formation] 1607 of living, esp. a prescribed manner of living, diet, also a dwelling, perhaps He saw she wold not mend, Nor that she wold be quiet, Neither for stroakes nor locking up, Nor yet for want of dyet . Taming of a Shrew (Child's Ballads, VIII. 186). This bread and water hath our diet been. Beau , and Fl . , Knight of Burning Pestle, lii. 4. I will suffer one to keep me in diet , another in apparel, another in physic, another to pay my house-rent. Dekker and Webster , Westward Ho, iv. 1. Good broth with good keeping do much now and then; Good diet with wisdom best comfort eth men. Tu er . 2. A course of food regulated by a physician or by medical rules; food prescribed for the prevention or cure of disease, and limited in kind and quantity; dietetic regimen; dietary. I commend rather some diet for certain seasons than frequent use of physic. Bacon, Regimen of Health. 3t. Allowance of provision; supply of food. For his diet, there was a continual diet given him of the king of Babylon. Jer. lii. 34. I dined at the Comptroller's [of the Household);... it was said it should be the last of the public diets or tables at Court. Evelyn, Diary, Aug. 20, 1663. 4t. Allowance for expenses of living. The allowances of the amba ador, or, as they were called, his diets , were ever unpaid; and he was reduced to sell his lands in England to keep himself abroad. R. W. Dixon , Hist. Church of Eng., xix. = Syn. 1. Subsistence, fare, provision.-2. Regimen. diet1 (di'et), v. [ dieten (cf. Gr. διαιτᾶν , v.); from the noun.] I. trans. 1. To provide diet or food for; feed; nourish. [Rare.] Nor sent thy Spouse this Token to destroy Thine Eye's, but diet them with sparkling joy. J. Beaumont, Psyche, iii. 76. IMG:content-2603.png:[blocks in formation] Cowper , Iliad, xxiv. 2. To eat according to rules prescribed: as, to diet in an attack of dyspepsia. diet2 (di'et), n. [OF. diete , F. diète = Sp. Pg. It. diet a , diet a , diæta , a public a embly (orig. one held on a set day), a set day of trial, a day's journey; the same in form as diet a , diæta , a prescribed manner of living, diet, but no doubt regarded as a derivative (a quasi pp. fem. noun) of L. dies , a day: see dial . Cf. D. rijksdag = G. reichstag = Dan. rigsdag = Sw. riksdag , the national a embly, lit. the diet of the realm; tag , etc., = E. day .] 1. A meeting, as of dignitaries or delegates, held from day to day for legislative, political, ecclesiastical, or municipal purposes; meeting; se ion: specifically applied by English and French writers to the legislative a emblies in the German empire, Austria, etc. The Diet or Reichstag of the old Roman-German empire was the meeting of the estates. Its se ions often received specific titles from the places in which they were held: as, the Diets of Worms, 1495 and 1521; the Diet of Augsburg, 1530. The Diet sat in three colleges: (1) that of the electoral princes; (2) that of the princes, in two benches, the temporal and the spiritual; and (3) that of the imperial cities. Each college deliberated by itself, the agreement of all three, with the a ent of the emperor, being nece ary. See Reichstag and Landtag. 2. The discharge of some part of ministerial duty at a fixed time: as, a diet of examination; a diet of visitation. [Scotch.] -3t. An excursion; a journey. Sum of the cons pir at our is, who hard tell of the king is dyett, followed fast to Leith eftir him. Pit scottie , Chron. of Scotland (ed. 1728), p. 212. Desertion of the diet. See desertion . - Diet of compearance, in Scots law , the day on which a party in a civil or criminal proce is cited to appear in court. - To dietal (di'e-tal), a. [ Until the putting in execution of the consequent Dietal decree, this port [is] to be made use of by the ships of war of both powers. Lowe , Bismarck, II. 568. dietine