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fasting

Roget category 956

6. Words relating to the sentient and moral
6.4. Moral affections
›› 6.4.4. Moral practice

#956. Fasting

noun

fastingxerophagyfamishment, starvation.
fast, jour maigre [Fr.]fast day, banyan dayLent, quadragesimaRamadan, Ramazan spare diet, meager dietlenten diet, lenten entertainmentsoupe maigre [Fr.], short commons, Barmecide feastshort rations.

verb

fast, starve, clem, famish, perish with hungerdine with Duke Humphreymake two bites of a cherry.

adjective

lenten, quadragesimalunfedstarved etc. v. — half-starvedfasting etc. v. — hungry etc. 865.

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