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noun

Fast n.

Abstinence from food; omission to take nourishment. "Surfeit is the father of much fast."

Voluntary abstinence from food, for a space of time, as a spiritual discipline, or as a token of religious humiliation.

A time of fasting, whether a day, week, or longer time; a period of abstinence from food or certain kinds of food; as, an annual fast.

Fast day, a day appointed for fasting, humiliation, and religious offices as a means of invoking the favor of God.

To break one's fast, to put an end to a period of abstinence by taking food; especially, to take one's morning meal; to breakfast.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Fast day" Quotes from Famous Books

... from the land, and when the dinner hour arrived they found that the lord admiral had provided a most sumptuous banquet on board. Just before the time, however, for setting down to the table, the duke found that it was a Catholic fast day, and that neither his mother nor any of her attendants, being, as they were, all Catholics, could eat any thing but fish; and, unfortunately, as all James's men were Protestants, they had not thought of the fast, and they had no fish on board. They, however, contrived to produce ...

— History of King Charles II of England • Jacob Abbott

... cases of exquisite champagne aboard the ship for me today—Veuve Clicquot and Lac d'Or. I and my room-mate have set apart every Saturday as a solemn fast day, wherein we will entertain no light matters of frivolous conversation, but only get drunk. (That is a joke.) His mother and sisters are the best and most homelike people I have yet found in a brown stone front. There is no style about them, except ...

— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain

... for the fast day came. But there was now plenty of food. The fast day was turned into ...

— Stories of Great Americans for Little Americans • Edward Eggleston

... happened yesterday, or the day before, I should not be much chagrined to be disputed and to find myself in error; but the memory of the events of childhood is authentic and indisputable. There was no Christmas for children in Bellingham, or I should remember it as vividly as I do Fast Day, Thanksgiving, Fourth of July and Town Meeting Day. The last named was the first holiday of the year for the male population, occurring on the first Tuesday in March. It was a day when the solid men of the town came to ...

— Confessions of Boyhood • John Albee

... and manager of his fraternity, conducting the farming operations and making all the bargains, following his rule respectably according to the ordinary standard of his time, but not rising to any spirituality, and while duly observing the fast day, as to the quality of his food, eating with the appetite of a man who lived in ...

— The Armourer's Prentices • Charlotte Mary Yonge