Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to or dependent upon diathesis; constitutional: as, diathetic tumors.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Pertaining to, or dependent on, a diathesis or special constitution of the body.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective of, relating to, or as a result of
diathesis
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Examples
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Anyhow, love is an incurable malady, like those diathetic states in which rheumatism affords the sufferer a brief respite only to be replaced by epileptiform headaches.
The Captive 2003
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Our purpose, to him, was moral, psychological, diathetic; to keep the enemy command intent upon the trans-Jordan front.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003
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As we had seldom to concern ourselves with what our men did, but always with what they thought, the diathetic for us would be more than half the command.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom Thomas Edward 2003
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