Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A diet of inferior rank; specifically, in Polish hist., one of the local assemblies of the nobility, which met to elect deputies to the national diet and to receive the reports of their actions.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A subordinate or local assembly; a diet of inferior rank.
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- noun A
subordinate orlocal assembly ; adiet of inferior rank.
Etymologies
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Compare French diétine.
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Examples
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Legislative Chamber (Li Fa Yuan) which from its very composition could be nothing but a harmless debating Society with no greater significance than a dietine of one of the minor German States.
The Fight for the Republic in China Bertram Lenox Simpson 1903
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