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Definition of Banting
1. Noun. Canadian physiologist who discovered insulin with C. H. Best and who used it to treat diabetes(1891-1941).
2. Noun. Wild ox of the Malay Archipelago.
Group relationships: Bos, Genus Bos
Generic synonyms: Ox, Wild Ox
Definition of Banting
1. banteng [n -S] - See also: banteng
Lexicographical Neighbors of Banting
Literary usage of Banting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The British Journal of Homoeopathy edited by John James Drysdale, Robert Ellis Dudgeon, Richard Hughes, John Rutherfurd Russell (1864)
"By WILLIAM banting. 3rd edition. 1864. A short time since a thrill of horror ...
However the followers of banting were speedily reassured by no less an ..."
2. Kettner's Book of the Table: A Manual of Cookery, Practical, Theoretical by Eneas Sweetland Dallas (1877)
"The following is the diet of Mr. banting, by which in a year—fifty-two weeks—he
reduced himself in weight 52 Ibs., to his great advantage. ..."
3. Journal of the American Oriental Society by American Oriental Society (1896)
"Banteng, also banting, the wild ox of Java, Borneo, and the Malay peninsula, Bos
banteng. ... banting, eine Art sehr wildes auf Borneo lebendes Rindvieh. ..."
4. The Library of Wit and Humor, Prose and Poetry: Selected from the Literature by Rufus Edmonds Shapley (1884)
"... as banting. out of his soul, can accomplish an amazing deal in twenty years.
He even went so far as to take into consideration mere humbugs ; for, ..."