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the act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods)

the usual food and drink consumed by an organism (person or animal)

a prescribed selection of foods

a legislative assembly in certain countries (e.g., Japan)

eat sparingly, for health reasons or to lose weight

follow a regimen or a diet, as for health reasons; "He has high blood pressure and must stick to a low-salt diet"

the act of restricting your food intake (or your intake of particular foods)

the usual food and drink consumed by an organism (person or animal)

a prescribed selection of foods

a legislative assembly in certain countries (e.g., Japan)

eat sparingly, for health reasons or to lose weight

Course of living or nourishment; what is eaten and drunk habitually; food; victuals; fare.

A course of food selected with reference to a particular state of health; prescribed allowance of food; regimen prescribed.

To cause to take food; to feed.

To cause to eat and drink sparingly, or by prescribed rules; to regulate medicinally the food of.

To eat; to take one's meals.

To eat according to prescribed rules; to ear sparingly; as, the doctor says he must diet.

A legislative or administrative assembly in Germany, Poland, and some other countries of Europe; a deliberative convention; a council; as, the Diet of Worms, held in 1521.

Any of various national or local assemblies;

Occasionally, the Reichstag of the German Empire, Reichsrath of the Austrian Empire, the federal legislature of Switzerland, etc.

The legislature of Denmark, Sweden, Japan, or Hungary.

The state assembly or any of various local assemblies in the states of the German Empire, as the legislature (Landtag) of the kingdom of Prussia, and the Diet of the Circle (Kreistag) in its local government.

The local legislature (Landtag) of an Austrian province.

In the old German or Holy Roman Empire, the great formal assembly of counselors (the Imperial Diet or Reichstag) or a small, local, or informal assembly of a similar kind (the Court Diet, or Hoftag).

The federative assembly of the old Germanic Confederation (1815 - 66).

Course of living or nourishment; what is eaten and drunk habitually; food; victuals; fare.

A course of food selected with reference to a particular state of health; prescribed allowance of food; regimen prescribed.

To cause to take food; to feed.

To cause to eat and drink sparingly, or by prescribed rules; to regulate medicinally the food of.

To eat; to take one's meals.

To eat according to prescribed rules; to ear sparingly; as, the doctor says he must diet.

Any of various national or local assemblies;

Occasionally, the Reichstag of the German Empire, Reichsrath of the Austrian Empire, the federal legislature of Switzerland, etc.

The legislature of Denmark, Sweden, Japan, or Hungary.

The local legislature (Landtag) of an Austrian province.

A legislative or administrative assembly in Germany, Poland, and some other countries of Europe; a deliberative convention; a council; as, the of Worms, held in 1521.

The state assembly or any of various local assemblies in the states of the German Empire, as the legislature (Landtag) of the kingdom of Prussia, and the of the Circle (Kreistag) in its local government.

The federative assembly of the old Germanic Confederation (1815 - 66).

In the old German or Holy Roman Empire, the great formal assembly of counselors (the Imperial or Reichstag) or a small, local, or informal assembly of a similar kind (the Court Diet, or Hoftag).

Regular course of eating and drinking adopted by a person or animal. This does not include DIET THERAPY, a specific diet prescribed in the treatment of a disease.

Solid or liquid food; manner of living, with special reference to food; a prescribed course of food, intended as a health measure; a national or lawmaking assembly.

Foods; victuals; to eat sparingly.

Mode of living with especial reference to food: food prescribed by a physician: allowance of provision.

To furnish with food.

To eat: to take food according to rule.

An assembly of princes and delegates, the chief national council in several countries in Europe.

To furnish with food.

To regulate the food and drink of; take food and drink by rule; eat sparingly.

A legislative body; council.

An assembly of princes and delegates.

Dietary; dietetic.

Habitual or prescribed food.

To take food according to rule.

Dioeta, Dioetema, Victus Ratio, (F.) Diete. Originally, this word signified nearly the same thing as Hygiene and Regimen, -that is, Diet was the employment of every thing necessary for the preservation of health and life. At the present day, it signifies a particular kind of food, and, at times, a privation of food and drink; -abstinence. To put any one upon diet, (F.) mettre quelqnun d la diete, means to deprive him of his usual nourishment: -milk diet means a diet of milk, &c. See Aliment, Dietetics, Hygiene, and Regimen. Every well regulated hospital has certain dietetic regulations.

The regulation of food to the requirements of the body.

The customary food of an individual.

Food restricted as to quality and quantity with reference to the restoration or preservation of health.

n. [Greek] Habitual food; what is eaten and drunk; victuals;—course of food selected with reference to a particular state of health;—allowance of provision;—price paid for food; board.

n. [Latin] A legislative or administrative assembly in some countries of Europe meeting from day to day;—in Scotland, the days in which parties in a civil or criminal process are cited to appear; also one assembly or set time for public worship.

Food, victuals; food regulated by the rules of medicine.

An assembly of princes or estates.