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One who lives in accordance with prescribed rules for diet; a dieter.

One who diets; one who prescribes, or who partakes of, food, according to hygienic rules.

A unit employed by oculists in numbering glasses according to the metric system; a refractive power equal to that of a glass whose principal focal distance is one meter.

According to the rules of diplomacy; in the manner of a diplomatist; artfully.

To fail to accord; not to agree; to lack harmony; to differ; to be unlike; to be at variance. They reject the plainest sense of Scripture, because it seems disagree with what they call reason. Atterbury.

Training to act in accordance with established rules; accustoming to systematic and regular action; drill. Their wildness lose, and, quitting nature's part, Obey the rules and discipline of art. Dryden.

Freedom to act according to one's own judgment; unrestrained exercise of choice or will. At discretion, without conditions or stipulations.

At discretion; according to one's discretion or judgment.

The act of reclining at table according to the manner of the ancients at their meals. Sir T. Browne.

with disesteem; to show disapprobation of; to discountenance. Countenanced or disfavored according as they obey. Swift.

To deal out in portions; to distribute; to give; as, the steward dispenses provisions according directions; Nature dispenses her bounties; to dispense medicines. He is delighted to dispense a share of it to all the company. Sir W. Scott.

past office, an office where the mails for a large district are collected to be assorted according to their destination and forwarded.

apers necessary to establish facts or give information; as, a a ship should be documented according to the directions of law.

s, arrayed in fanciful patterns. Domino theory. A political theory current in the 1960's, according to which the conversion of one country in South Asia to communism will start a sequential process causing all Asian countries to convert to Communism. The apparent assumption was that an Asian country with a Western orie…

nistration of medicine in doses; specif., a scheme or system of grading doses of medicine according to age, etc.

The tincture sable or black when blazoned according to the fantastic system in which plants are substituted for the tinctures.

In accordance with the principles of dynamics or moving forces. J. Peile.

the East is not independent of the agriculture of the West. East by north, East by south, according to the notation of the mariner's compass, that point which lies 11 -- East-northeast, East-southeast, that which lie 22Illust. of Compass.

A figure in which the orator treats of things according to their events consequences.

In an ecclesiastical manner; according ecclesiastical rules.