dietetical

Picnics were conversationally considered in all their more important phases — historical, dietetical, and social.

Our Mr. Wrenn 2004

These ultra-temperance dietetical philosophers never flourished greatly.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 Various

Indigent man was I, whose dietetical elegancies had been forgotten, a man with ravenous desires seeking sustenance, not relishes; the means of life, not the means of pampering the carcass; I wanted food.

Across China on Foot Edwin John Dingle 1926

Picnics were conversationally considered in all their more important phases -- historical, dietetical, and social.

Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man Sinclair Lewis 1918

Picnics were conversationally considered in all their more important phases -- historical, dietetical, and social.

Our Mr. Wrenn: The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man 1914

True, they had no dietetical elegancies – only fried pork, bread, butter, tea, and syrup, but my appetite was keen enough to be generously uncritical.

Janey Canuck in the West Emily Ferguson 1910

It is, however, probable that dietetical considerations may have influenced Moses in his prohibition of swine's flesh: it is generally believed that its use in hot countries is liable to induce cutaneous disorders; hence in a people liable to leprosy the necessity for the observance of a strict rule.

Smith's Bible Dictionary 1884

Further research will here have to be made, with the idea of “impotent need,” inasmuch as, from a high ethical, national-dietetical point of view, the question is asked whether, to what extent, and how, “impotent need” may be made a potent one.

System der volkswirthschaft. English Wilhelm Roscher 1855