dieresis 
1007 
or ura . 
sisting' of dot" is lined merely as a diacritical mark, as in 
the notation of pronunciation in this book (for instance, 
", (i, li). A similar mark is used in German to indicate 
the umlaut. See umlaut. 
3. In iirnx., the division made in a line or a 
verse by coincidence of the end of a foot and 
the end of a word; especially, such a division 
at the close of a colon or rhythmic series. It 
is strictly distinct from, but often included un- 
der, cesura (which see). 4. In pathol., a solu- 
tion of continuity, as an ulcer or a wound. 
dieretic, diaretic (di-e-ret'ik). a. [< Gr. <!- 
pcrixAf, divisive, separative, < Mdprrof, divided, 
< tuuptiv, divide: see dieresis.'} In med., hav- 
ing power to divide, dissolve, or corrode; es- 
charotic; corrosive. 
Diervilla (di-er-vil'ft), n. [NL. ; named from 
M. Dierville, who seiit it from Canada to Tour- 
nefort.] A shrubby 
genus of the natural 
order Caprifoliacece, 
including 7 species, 
natives of North 
America, China, and 
Japan. They are nearly 
allied to the honeysuckle, 
hut have a funnel-shaped 
or cam pamilate corolla and 
a two-celled capsule. The 
genus includes the bush- 
honeysuckle. D. triflda, of 
the eastern United States, 
with yellow flowers, and 
the D. Japoniea of eastern 
Asia, many showy varieties 
etc.] 1. Food and drink; specifically, food 
dietine 
dietarian (di-e-ta'ri-an), a. and w. [< dietary + 
-.] I. a. Relating to a dieting or to a dietary. 
II. n. One who adheres to a certain or pre- 
scribed diet ; one who considers the regulation 
of a course of food as important for the preser- 
vation of health; a dietetist. 
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considered in relation to its quality and effects: dietary (di'e-ta-ri), a. and n. [< LL. 'ditetarius, 
as, milk is a wholesome article of diet. 
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 ditt been. 
Beau, and Fl., Knight of Burning Pestle, Hi. 4. 
I will suffer one to keep me In diet, another In apparel, 
another In physic, another topay my house-rent. 
flatter and Weuatcr, Westward Ho, Iv. 1. 
Good broth with good keeping do much now and then ; 
Good diet with wisdom best comforteth men. Tuner. 
2. A course of food regulated by a physician 
adj. (used as noun, a valet), s diatta, diet, etc. : 
see diet 1 , .] I. a. Pertaining to diet or the 
rules of diet. 
Lord Henry would not listen to statistics, dietary table*, 
commissioners' rules, sub-commissioners' report!. 
Disraeli, Coningshy. 
II. . ; pi. dietaries (-riz). 1. A system or 
course of diet ; a system of rules of diet. 
To be rulid bi this diatorie [read dietarie] do thi diligence, 
For it techlth good diete & good gouemaunce. 
Babees Book (E. E. T. 8.), p. M. 
From Dr. William Lambe, of Warwick, a friend of the 
poet Landor, Mr. Newton had learnt the fatal effect* of 
our flesh-meat dietary. E. Douxtfn, Shelley, I. 307. 
or by medical rules ; food prescribed for the 2 ^ a ]i owance an d regulation of food, espe- 
. 
cially for the inmates of a hospital, prison, or 
prevention or cure of disease, and limited in 
kind and quantity; dietetic regimen ; dietary, poorhouse. 
I commend rather some diet for certain seasons than diet-bookt (di'et-buk), n. 
frequent use of physic. Bacon, Regimen of Health. 
3f. Allowance of provision; supply of food. 
For his diet, there was a continual diet given him of the 
A diary; a journal. 
It [conscience] la a dirt-booke, wherein the siunes of 
everie day are written. 
Epistle of a Christian Brother (1624), p. 25. 
king of Babylon. Jer. UL 84. diet-bread (di'et-bred), n. 1 . A delicate sweet 
I dined at the Comptroller's [of the Household] ;. . . it cake, formerly much esteemed in England. 
' 2. A name given to various fine breads suita- 
ble for invalids. 
diet-drink (dl'et-dringk), n. Medicated liquor; 
drink prepared with medicinal ingredients. 
The observation will do that better than the lady's diet- 
drinks, or apothecary's medicines. Lucte. 
Lisbon diet-drink, a celebrated medicinal draught re- 
sembling the compound tincture of sarsaparilla. 
was said It should be the last of the public diets or tables 
at Court. Evelyn, Diary, Aug. 20, 1663. 
4f. Allowance for expenses of living. 
The allowances of the ambassador, 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. 
yafomca. 
known as species of Wei- 
dies fausti (di'ez fas'- 
ti). [L. : dies, pi. of 
dies, day ; fausti, masc. 
pi. of faustus for "fa- 
vostus, favorable, for- 
tunate, < favere, fa- 
vor: see/nt'or.] Auspicious days; days which 
the ancient Romans considered lucky, and on 
which, therefore, the pretors could administer 
justice and the comitia could be held: contrast- 
ed with dies infausti, inauspicious or unlucky 
days. 
die-sinker (di'sing'ker), n. An engraver of 
dies for stamping or embossing. 
die-sinking (di'sing' l 'king), n. The process of 
engraving dies for stamping coins, medals, etc. 
diesis (di'e-sis), n. [= F. diese, formerly diesis, 
= Sp. diesi = Pg. It. diesis, < L. diesis, < Gr. 
dicatf, a sending through, discharge ; in music, 
a semitone, later a quarter-tone, taken by 
...,.....,...,.. = =Sy^l. Subsistence fare provision.-! Regimen. TC c vui .. i 
of which are frequent In diet 1 (di'et), v. [< ME. dieten (cf. Gr. duurav, fa 6 fa T (di'e-ter), . [< dieft + -cr 1 .] 1. One 
cultivation, more usually v .) ; from the noun.] I. trans. 1. To provide wno diets. 2. One who prescribes rules for 
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, ill. 76. 
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eating ; one who prepares food by dietetic rules. 
He cut our roots in characters, 
And aauc'd our broths, as Juno had been sick 
And he her dieter. Shall. , Cymbeline, Iv. 2. 
2. To prescribe food for ; regulate the food or dietetic (di-e-tet'ik), a. [= F. diete'tique = Sp. 
regimen of. dietetico = Pg. It. dietetico (cf. D. dieetetisch = 
lt Lord. We shall not then have his company to-night. G. didtetisch = Dan. duetetisk = Sw. dietetisk), 
2d Lord. Not till after midnight^ for he is dieted to his < LLi. diteteticus, < Gr. fiam/riKA(, of or for diet, 
< Siairav, follow a certain diet, < iiatra, diet: see 
diet l ,n.] Pertaining to diet; specifically, re- 
lating to medical rules for regulating the kind 
and quantity of food to be eaten. 
This book of Cheyne's became the subject of conversa- 
tion, and produced even sects in the dietetick philosophy. 
Arbuthnot, Aliments, 1'ref. 
dietetical (dl-e-tet'i-kal), a. [< dietetic + -a/.] 
Same as dietetic. 
He received no other counsel than to refrain from cold 
hour. Shale., All's Well, iv. 3. 
We have dieted a healthy body into a consumption by 
plying it with physick instead of food. 
Swift, Conduct of the Allies. 
II. intrans. 1. To eat; feed. 
Spare Fast, that oft with gods doth diet. 
Milton, II Penseroso, L 46. 
Inbred worm, 
That diets on the braye in battle fall'n. 
Cowper, Iliad, niv. 
2. To eat according to rules prescribed : as, to 
diet in an attack of dyspepsia. 
diet 2 (di'et), n. [< OF. diete, F. diete = Sp. Pg. 
It. dieta, < ML. dieta, dia:ta, a public assembly 
drink, which was but a dietetical caution. 
Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err. 
I have seen palates, otherwise not uninstructed in die- 
tetieal elegancies, sup it up with avidity. 
La>nb - chimney-sweepers. 
Aristotle for the least subdivision or unit of / orjg OI i e ne j d on a get day) a" set day of trial, Lamb > chimney-sweepers, 
musical intervals; < Siitvai, send through, let a day's journey; the same in form as dieta, dietetically (di-e-tet'i-kal-i), adv. Inadieteti- 
through, < A<4, through, + Uvat, send.] 1. In ai(Ktat a prescribed manner of living, diet, but cal manner. Imp. Diet" 
Gr. music, the Pythagorean semitone, being no doubt regarded as a derivative (a quasi pp. dietetics (di-e-tet'iks), n. [PI. of dietetic : see 
t 1) i > i 1 i ll'i ii>> > 1 1 i'i > ViflfwaQTl fl. frtllTt.Vl DTK? t.Wl*\ TMP1A1* TI/\11T^ rtf T S?J/>0 Q. J^O.V QAA ffistl C*f t\ -~~ /"** T T * AZ if>4f,ll nr, / I '_ ,. .1 ,,., ., ,,,'/,.,, , , , . 
rijksdag = G. reichstag = Dan. rigsdag = Sw. 
riksdag, the national assembly, lit. the diet of 
the realm; tag, etc., = E. <liit,.\ 1. A meeting, 
as of dignitaries or delegates, held from day to 
day for legislative, political, ecclesiastical, or 
municipal purposes; meeting: session: spe- 
cifically applied by English and French writers 
to the legislative assemblies in the German dietetist (di-e-tet'ist), . [= F. dMMtiste = Pg. 
-ics. Cf. iiL.'duBtetice, < Gr. Auurrirudi (sc. 
art), dietetics.] That department of medicine 
which relates to the regulation of diet. 
To suppose that deciding whether a mathematical or a 
classical education is the best is deciding what Is the 
proper curriculum, is much the same thing as to suppose 
that the whole of dietetics lies in determining whether or 
not bread is more nutritive than potatoes ! 
H. Spencer, Education, p. 28. 
the difference between a fourth and two major 
tones, represented by the ratio 256 : 243. Also 
used of two theoretical subdivisions of a major tone, 
amounting respectively to about a third or a fourth of a 
tone, called the chromatic and the enharmonic diesis. 
2. In modern music, the difference between an 
octave and three major thirds, represented by 
the ratio 128 : 125. Also called the modern en- 
harmonic diesis. 3. In printing, the mark t, 
commonly called double dagger. See dagger^. 
dies nefasti (di'ez ne-fas'ti). [L.: dies, pi. of empire, Austria, etc._ The Diet or Reichstag ot the dietetista; as dietet-ic + -ist.] One who lays 
dies, day; nefasti, pi! of nefastus, not lawful, < 
ne-, not, 4- fastits, allowing judgment to be pro- 
nounced, fasti, pi., a court-day: see/oW.] In 
Horn, law, days on which judgment 
could not be pronounced; blank days. 
See feritE. 
dies non (di'ez non). [L., abbr. of dies 
non juridicus, not a court day : dies, a 
day; non, not; junctions, of a court, 
juridical: see dial, non-, and juridical."] 
In law, a day on which courts are not 
held, as Sunday, etc. ; a blank day. 
die-stock (dl'stok), n. A contrivance 
for holding the dies used in screw-cut- 
ting. It is made in various forms. 
diet 1 (di'et). n. [< ME. diete, < OF. 
diete, F. didte = Pr. Sp. Pg. It. dieta 
= D. dieet = G. diiit = Dan. dicet 
= Sw. diet = Pol. dye t = Russ. dieta, < 
L. diteta, LL. and ML. also dicta, and 
sometimes zteta, zetu, a prescribed man- 
ner of living, diet, a dwelling-place, summer- 
house, etc., ML. also food, < Gr. iiana, manner 
treatment 
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places in which they were held : as, the Diets of Worms, e first place 
1496 and 1521 ; the Diet of Augsburg, 1530. The Diet sat in disease. Dunglison. 
three colleges: (1) that of the electoral princes ; (2) that dietic (di-et'ik), a. and n. [< diet 1 + -1C. Cf. die- 
of the princes, in two benches, the temporal and the t ti . -\ T _ r\f __ T-B,^,,;,,;,, to dint rlifittic 
spiritual; and (3) that of the imperial cities Each college ' 
- ^..\^-,. it . - 53 .. _ ., ------- ,*,- ,E used to note those diseases which are caused 
by or connected with the use of improper or 
bad food. 
II. n. A course of diet. [Rare.] 
Gentle dietics or healing applications. 
Dp. Gauden, Tears of the Church, p. 397. 
dietical (di-et'i-kal), a. [< dietic + -at.] Same 
as dietic. 
The three fountains of physick, namely, dietical, chirur- 
gical, and pharmaceutical. 
Chilmead, tr. of Kerrand's Love and Melancholy (1640), 
[p. 287. 
dietine (di'e-tin), n. [< F. dietine, dim. of diete, 
diet : see dieft."} A diet of inferior rank ; spe- 
cifically, in Polish hist., one of the local assem- 
blies of the nobility, which met to elect depu- 
ties to the national diet and to receive the re- 
ports of their actions. 
deliberated by itself, the agreement of all three, with the 
assent of the emperor, being necessary. See lieichstay and 
Landtag. 
2. The discharge of some part of ministerial 
duty at a fixed time : as, adiet of examination; 
a diet of visitation. [Scotch.] 3f. An excur- 
sion ; a journey. 
Sum of the conspiratouris, who hard tell of the kingis 
dyett, followed fast to Leith eftir him. 
PitKottie, Chron. of Scotland (ed. 1728), p. 212. 
Desertion of the diet. See deiertion. Diet of com- 
pearance, in Scots law, the day on which a party in a 
civil or criminal process is cited to appear in court. To 
desert the diet. See deserti. 
dietal (di'e-tal), a. [< dieft + -ai.] Pertain- 
ing or belonging to a diet or assembly. 
Vntil the putting In execution of the consequent Dutal 
decree, this port [is] to be made use of by the ships of war 
of both powers. Lowe, Bismarck, II. 668. 
