vegetarianistic

English

Etymology

From vegetarian +‎ -istic or vegetarianist +‎ -ic.

Adjective

vegetarianistic (comparative more vegetarianistic, superlative most vegetarianistic) (rare)

1. Pertaining to vegetarianists.
   • 1919, The Indian Social Reformer, volume 30, page 417, column 1:

     Men must kill something or other if they have to live. So that a vegetarianistic superstition must be broken in the interests of a higher conception of religion.

   • 1984, Srinivasa Ayya Srinivasan, Studies in the Rāma Story: On the Irretrievable Loss of Vālmīki’s Original and the Operation of the Received Text as Seen in Some Versions of the Vālin-Sugrīva Episode, Steiner, →ISBN, pages 82, 149:

     In this connection it turned out to be instructive to to take a closer look at vegetarianistic phrases like madhumūlaphalair jīvan, etc., and it was seen that such phrases came to be simply a metaphor for innocuousness, though this change of meaning need not have succeeded the vegetarianistic acceptance after any considerable period of time, sublating the latter (§ 1.6ff.). […] readings that are transmissional changes not based on objection to repetition but born of the wish to make sure that 33cd and 35cd were not misconstrued to be vegetarianistic.

   • 1995 January 3, Jim Ward, “INSOMNIA gaffe?”, in alt.books.stephen-king (Usenet):

     Maybe it isn't a gaffe......I know, I'm strectching, but buying Prime Rib is not anti-vegetarianistic, (I bet you can't find that word in Webster's) and everyone knows there really isn't any meat in a chicken pot pie. (sorry Staufers)

   • 1999 June 30, josiah, “London Swamped by Anti-Capitalism Protesters]^[sic]”, in alt.punk (Usenet):

     If you are talking about protein, which is often the topic when it comes to vegetarianistic diets.. A one pound steak contains four ounces of protein, less than three of which is usable. You can get better ratios without meat.

   • 1999 September 12, wild...@peconic.net, “SOME RELATED SUBJECTS BELOW...”, in alt.animals.dolphins (Usenet):

     FRUIT GROWERS / THIS IS A TREND GIVEN TO YOU / IN THE FORM OF LOVE / FROM AN ANGEL WHO DID / DIE / INSPITE OF HER METICULOUS / BUT TOO LATE REFORMED / VEGETARIANISTIC HABITS..

   • 2003 November 23, George, “Vegetarianismo?”, in soc.culture.argentina (Usenet):

     I'm quite sure the novel can be found in any big library. It's not very long, so you could go through it just by the shelves and find those mentions of Vegetarianistic leader and his depiction of the process.