Citations:vegetare

(to adhere to a vegetarian diet):

• 1897 May 22, “The New Verb”, in Pick-me-up, page 116:

  When Christmas day I celebrate
  On cabbage rich and rare,
  You must not say I “vegetate”—
  I vegetare.
  […] Eve, Cain, and many more
  Subsisted merely on the crops—
  They vegetore.

• 1898 August, Josiah Oldfield, “Vegetarian Still”, in The Nineteenth Century, page 248:

  Vegetarianism does not mean vegetable-eating. ‘I vegetare, thou vegetarest, he vegetares’ is not synonymous with ‘I eat vegetables, thou eatest vegetables, he eats vegetables.’

• 1898, Josiah Oldfield, “The Dietary of the Twentieth Century”, in The New Century Review, page 308:

  The dietary of the coming century shall be in harmony with its aspirations and the human race will vegetare.

• 1900 March 15, Josiah Oldfield, “Aristophagy”, in Herald of the Golden Age, page 25:

  I do not vegetare because it is cheaper so to do, or because flesh meat weakens the body and shortens the life, or because I had an inherited repugnance to the taste of it, but because I want my feeding to be in harmony with my aspirations.

• 1914 December, John R. Rodgers, “Indigestion and other topics”, in The Green Book Magazine, page 1044:

  No, I don’t think vegetaring will help you. Of course you have quit coffee?

• 2006, Solveig S, “Being Vegetarian in South America....Easy or Difficult?”, in Travellers point‎:

  What you have to realize is that brazilians in general do not understand the concept vegetaring and thus would include chicken, fish and even small amounts of beef in their definition of a vegetarian dish.