Diet

Diet [fr. dies, Lat., an appointed day, Skinner; or diet, an old German word, meaning a multitude, Junius]. I.--A deliberative assembly of princes or estates.II.--Food. The statute of Nottingham, 10 Edw. 3, c. 3, (English) relating to excess in diet (de cibariis utend is), was repealed by 19 & 20 Vict. c. 64....

macrobiotic diet

A diet consisting chiefly of beans and whole grains...

Dietary

Pertaining to diet or to the rules of diet...

Dietetics

That part of the medical or hygienic art which relates to diet or food rules for diet...

Pellagra

An affection of the skin characterized by redness especially in exposed areas scaling and shedding of the skin and accompanied with severe gastrointestinal disturbance and nervous symptoms It is due to a deficiency of niacin vitamin B3 nicotinic acid and protein in the diet and may be caused by malnutrition or in some cases by a heavy dependence on maize for food It was at one time ca 1890 endemic in Northern Italy and was called Alpine scurvy It may also be caused by alcoholism or diease causing an impairment of nutrition It is also called St Ignatiuss itch maidism mal de la rosa mal rosso and psychoneurosis maidica A variety of pellagra seen in children is called infantile pellagra or kwashiorkor...

Sheriff-tooth

Sheriff-tooth, a tenure by the service of providing entertainment for the sheriff at his county courts; a common tax, formerly levied for the sheriff's diet....

Protestant

Protestant. This term does not occur in the Canons of 1603, or in the Thirty-nine Articles, or in the Acts of Uniformity, but appears in many statutes of later date, notably in the (English) Act of Settlement of 1700 (12 & 13 Wm. 3, c. 2), in which, by way of making further provision (in addition to that made by the Bill of Rights in 1688) 'for the succession of the Crown in the Protestant line,' the Crown was settled, in default of issue of Princess Anne of Denmark (afterwards Queen Anne) and William III., on the Princess Sophia and the heirs of her body, 'being Protestants'; it being added that 'whosoever shall hereafter come to the possession of this Crown shall join in communion with the Church of England as by law established.'The Bill of Rights (1 W. & M. sess. 2, c. 2), after reciting that 'it hath been found by experience that it is inconsistent with the safety and welfare of this Protestant kingdom to be governed by a popish prince or by any king or queen marrying a papist,' d...

Sitology

A treatise on the regulation of the diet dietetics...

Sago

A dry granulated starch imported from the East Indies much used for making puddings and as an article of diet for the sick also as starch for stiffening textile fabrics It is prepared from the stems of several East Indian and Malayan palm trees but chiefly from the Metroxylon Sagu also from several cycadaceous plants Cycas revoluta Zamia integrifolia etc...

VerbarReichstag

The Diet or House of Representatives of the German empire and of the Weimar Republic which was composed of members elected for a term of three years by the direct vote of the people This term is no longer in 1997 applied to the German parliament See also Bundesrath...

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