• Synonyms: diet
  Meaning: a prescribed selection of foods

• Rigorous diet.
• So come, let's open it, and see what sort of diet the antediluvians had."
• Sh!--keep mum, but just you confine yourself to that diet and you're all right.
• But it was a good and wholesome diet, and the children thrived and grew fat upon it.
• An element added to the dress or to the diet heightens greatly the total gratification.
• We have proved the fish diet is not essential, as two of our cats (in Cornwall) never get it.
• Personally, I class roast beef with watercress and vanilla cornstarch pudding as tasty articles of diet.
• A frequent--almost a daily--change of diet is to be recommended, and manufactured foods are to be avoided.
• Races, wrestling, and quoits were better; while fishing was highly commendable, both in the way of diet as well as in the way of sport.
• Under the widow's instructions, she was preparing the peculiar vegetable diet which had been prescribed by Doctor Fontaine as part of the cure.

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