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DIET, n. [L., Gr., manner of living, mode of life prescribe by a physician, food, a room, parlor or bed room. In the middle ages, this word was used to denote the provision or food for one day, and for a journey of one day. Hence it seems to be from dies, day, or its root; and hence the word may have come to signify a meal or supper, and the room occupied for eating.]

1. Food or victuals; as, milk is a wholesome diet; flesh is nourishing diet.

2. Food regulated by a physician, or by medical rules; food prescribed for the prevention or cure of disease, and limited in kind or quantity. I restrained myself to a regular diet of flesh once a day.

3. Allowance of provision.

For his diet there was a continual diet given him by the king. Jeremiah 52.

4. Board, or boarding; as, to pay a certain sum for diet, washing and lodging.

DIET, n. [G.] An assembly of the states or circles of the empire of Germany and of Poland; a convention of princes, electors, ecclesiastical dignitaries, and representatives of free cities, to deliberate on the affairs of the empire. There are also diets of states and cantons.

DIET, v.t.

1. To feed; to board; to furnish provisions for; as, the master diets his apprentice.

2. To take food by rules prescribed; as, an invalid should carefully diet himself.

3. To feed; to furnish aliment; as, to diet revenge.

DIET, v.i.

1. To eat according to rules prescribed.

2. To eat; to feed; as, the students diet in commons.
1913 Definition
Diet (diet)
n.(?)
Di"et
[F. diète, L. diaeta, fr. Gr. (?) manner of living.]
  1. Course of living or nourishment; what is eaten and drunk habitually; food; victuals; fare.
    "No inconvenient diet." Milton.
  2. A course of food selected with reference to a particular state of health; prescribed allowance of food; regimen prescribed.

    To fast like one that takes diet. Shak.

    Diet kitchen, a kitchen in which diet is prepared for invalids; a charitable establishment that provides proper food for the sick poor.

  3. To cause to take food] to feed.
    [R.] Shak.
  4. To cause to eat and drink sparingly, or by prescribed rules; to regulate medicinally the food of.

    She diets him with fasting every day. Spenser.

  5. To eat; to take one's meals.
    [Obs.]

    Let him . . . diet in such places, where there is good company of the nation, where he traveleth. Bacon.

  6. To eat according to prescribed rules; to ear sparingly; as, the doctor says he must diet.
  7. 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.
  8. Any of various national or local assemblies;
    as, (a)
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The moral principles and precepts contained in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all of our civil constitutions and laws....All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.
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