diate

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A form of diet — The food and beverage a person or animal consumes.

UncommonScrabble 6

Meanings

noundiate (countable and uncountable, plural diates)

plural diates

  1. countableobsoleteuncountableObsolete spelling of diet.

    The chang of aire, diate, & drinking of water, would infecte their bodies with sore sickneses, and greevous diseases.

    1620-1647, William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation
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