dieted

Adjective

dieted (comparative more dieted, superlative most dieted)

1. Having been on a specialized diet that limits caloric intake.
   • he's a fat, corpulent, Vnwieldy fellow; you, a dieted Sparke, Fit for the Combat.1641, Ben Jonson, The Magnetic Lady
   • Dr. Schmitz (Neuenahr) calls attention to four interesting cases (two fatal) as illustrating the pathogeny of diabetes, the symptoms resembling that produced in the dieted diabetics by that over-indulgence in saccharine food, for which they have such a craving.1881 July 15, “The Lancets”, in The Australian Medical Journal, volume 3, page 321
2. well-fed; having or requiring extra nutrition.
   • The wenches swear, he kisses like a giant still; And will ride his heats as cleanly as a dieted Gelding.1876, Hazlitt, Elvira, Or, The Worst Not Always True, page 129
   • Then I say ye are a dieted horse for heaven.1878, Samuel Rutherford, Fourteen Communion Sermons, page 235
3. Showing the effects of dieting; resulting from limited caloric intake.
   • Her long slim back was straight and paltry in the modern fashion, a dieted back .1930, Rhys Davies, Rings on Her Fingers, page 237
   • Josepha decided that there was a lean look about her figure, a dieted slenderness rather than the natural delicacy of youth.1934, Olga Rosmanith, Picture People, page 237
4. (figuratively) Resulting from scarcity.
   • Obviously this sorded power of dull, "lust-dieted" appetite has not very much in common with Milton's blithe , caressing personification of pleasure, so fatal because outwardly so beautiful; though I do not doubt that Milton knew Ben Johson's Masque.1891, John Milton, Arthur Wilson Verity, Milton's Arcades and Comus, page xxxvii
   • The levee was social jambalaya, but it was also novelty. It proved appetizing enough to tickle the dieted palate of Richmond's exclusiveness.1909, Thomas Cooper De Leon, Belles, Beaux and Brains of the 60's, page 67
5. (figuratively) Abbreviated; reduced.
   • why not diet our furniture to fit the dieted homes we were living in?1931, Furniture Record - Volume 63, page 54
   • There was a long note on it in The Month for February, 1939, but in case you haven't that or some better source of information at hand, we might have a dieted version now.1940, The Month at Goodspeed's Book Shop- Volume 12, page 191
6. Providing specialized dietary services, especially when addressing nutrition as an aspect of treatment.
   • The hospital at Korti (No. 1 field-hospital) was made a dieted one on February 1st, the diets sanctioned being low, milk, chicken, roast, and entire.1885 April 25, “Our Troops At Korti”, in British Medical Journal, volume 1, page 862
   • The British station hospital is, of course, a dieted institution and is otherwise self-contained.1924, The Army in India and Its Evolution, page 120