dietary

plural dietaries

1. A regulated diet that excludes or constrains certain types of food, especially for health reasons; also, a book or similar setting out such regulations.First known use 15th c.

   In general, beets, carrots, and turnips are all of aphrodisiac value in erotic dietary.

   1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 42

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   [H]er lassitude was such that she hardly cared to feed herself; yet she managed to consume five or six times a normal dietary.

   1917, Aleister Crowley, Moonchild, Weiser, published 2010, page 219

2. A prescribed meal plan setting out how the inhabitants of an institution (such as a prison, hospital etc.) should be fed, and on what foods.First known use 18th c.

   I cannot speak with any confidence of the pre-war dietary of asylum patients, which no doubt differs widely in different asylums.

   1921, Montagu Lomax, The Experiences of an Asylum Doctor, London: Allen & Unwin, page 119

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   “Do I understand that he asked for more, after he had eaten the supper allotted by the dietary?” “He did, sir,” replied Bumble.

   1837 February, Boz [pseudonym; Charles Dickens], “Treats of Oliver Twist’s Growth, Education, and Board”, in Oliver Twist; […], volume I, London: Richard Bentley, […], published 1838, →OCLC, page 30

1. not comparablePertaining to a prescribed diet; (generally), relating to what a person or animal eats.First known use 16th c.

   If you have any dietary requirements, please inform the kitchen staff.

2. not comparableComprising a food source.

   For example, the antitumour depsipeptide kahalalide F was isolated from the opisthobranch mollusc Elysia rufescens, and is used by both the mollusc and its dietary alga Bryopsis spp.

   2016 January 21, “Choose Your Weaponry: Selective Storage of a Single Toxic Compound, Latrunculin A, by Closely Related Nudibranch Molluscs”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI