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dietetic

[ dahy-i-tet-ik ]

adjective

  1. pertaining to diet or to regulation of the use of food.
  2. prepared or suitable for special diets, diet, especially those requiring a restricted sugar intake:

    a jar of dietetic jelly.



noun

  1. dietetics, (used with a singular verb) the science concerned with the nutritional planning and preparation of foods.

dietetic

/ ˌdaɪɪˈtɛtɪk /

adjective

  1. denoting or relating to diet or the regulation of food intake
  2. prepared for special dietary requirements


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Derived Forms

  • ˌdieˈtetically, adverb

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Other Words From

  • die·teti·cal·ly adverb
  • nondi·e·tetic adjective
  • nondi·e·teti·cal·ly adverb

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Word History and Origins

Origin of dietetic1

1535–45; < Latin diaeteticus < Greek diatētikós, equivalent to diatē-, variant stem of diaitân to treat, regulate (derivative of díaita diet 1 ) + -tikos -tic

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Example Sentences

It must be made perfectly clear, said the bishop, that Christianity was a religion, and not a dietetic dogma.

The vestry declined to compromise, and insisted on allowing tobacco as a non-dietetic indulgence.

For instance the three departments of medicine are the rhetorical, the dietetic, and the surgical and pharmaceutical.

Excess of starch, so my experience has convinced me, is the deadliest of all dietetic errors.

This brings up my dietetic history, to the period at which it commences, in the letter to Dr. North.

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