[f. prec.] The doctrine or practice of vegetarians: abstention from eating meat, fish or other animal products.
1853. in Dunglison, Lex.
1861. Q. Rev., Oct., 324. All this was partly owing, no doubt, to mere physical illness; not improbably to vegetarianism.
1879. Tyndall, Fragm. Sci. (ed. 6), I. xi. 339. Is it contrary to the rules of Vegetarianism to eat eggs?
1885. Salmon, Introd. N. T., 241. Among our selves … vegetarianism is regarded as a harmless eccentricity.
