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Fasting
(gcide) | Fast \Fast\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fasted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Fasting.] [AS. f[ae]stan; akin to D. vasten, OHG.
fast[=e]n, G. fasten, Icel. & Sw. fasta, Dan. faste, Goth.
fastan to keep, observe, fast, and prob. to E. fast firm.]
1. To abstain from food; to omit to take nourishment in whole
or in part; to go hungry.
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Fasting he went to sleep, and fasting waked.
--Milton.
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2. To practice abstinence as a religious exercise or duty; to
abstain from food voluntarily for a time, for the
mortification of the body or appetites, or as a token of
grief, or humiliation and penitence.
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Thou didst fast and weep for the child. --2 Sam.
xii. 21.
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Fasting day, a fast day; a day of fasting.
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fasting
(wn) | fasting
n 1: abstaining from food [syn: fast, fasting] |
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Breakfasting
(gcide) | Breakfast \Break"fast\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. breakfasted; p.
pr. & vb. n. Breakfasting.]
To break one's fast in the morning; too eat the first meal in
the day.
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First, sir, I read, and then I breakfast. --Prior.
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Fasting
(gcide) | Fast \Fast\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fasted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Fasting.] [AS. f[ae]stan; akin to D. vasten, OHG.
fast[=e]n, G. fasten, Icel. & Sw. fasta, Dan. faste, Goth.
fastan to keep, observe, fast, and prob. to E. fast firm.]
1. To abstain from food; to omit to take nourishment in whole
or in part; to go hungry.
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Fasting he went to sleep, and fasting waked.
--Milton.
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2. To practice abstinence as a religious exercise or duty; to
abstain from food voluntarily for a time, for the
mortification of the body or appetites, or as a token of
grief, or humiliation and penitence.
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Thou didst fast and weep for the child. --2 Sam.
xii. 21.
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Fasting day, a fast day; a day of fasting.
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Fasting day
(gcide) | Fast \Fast\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Fasted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Fasting.] [AS. f[ae]stan; akin to D. vasten, OHG.
fast[=e]n, G. fasten, Icel. & Sw. fasta, Dan. faste, Goth.
fastan to keep, observe, fast, and prob. to E. fast firm.]
1. To abstain from food; to omit to take nourishment in whole
or in part; to go hungry.
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Fasting he went to sleep, and fasting waked.
--Milton.
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2. To practice abstinence as a religious exercise or duty; to
abstain from food voluntarily for a time, for the
mortification of the body or appetites, or as a token of
grief, or humiliation and penitence.
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Thou didst fast and weep for the child. --2 Sam.
xii. 21.
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Fasting day, a fast day; a day of fasting.
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handfasting
(gcide) | handfast \hand"fast`\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. handfasted; p. pr.
& vb. n. handfasting.]
1. To pledge; to bind. [Obs.]
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2. To betroth by joining hands, in order to permit
cohabitation, before the formal celebration of marriage;
in some parts of Scotland it was in effect to marry
provisionally, permitting cohabitation for a year, after
which the marriage could be formalized or dissolved.
[Obs.]
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Note: Handfasting was a simple contract of agreement under
which cohabitation was permitted for a year, at the end
of which time the contract could be either dissolved or
made permanent by a formal marriage. Such marriages, at
first probably not intended to be temporary, are
supposed to have originated in Scotland from a scarcity
of clergy, and to have existed at times in other
countries.
[Century Dict. 1906.] |
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