'Fasting' definitions:
Definition of 'Fasting'
From: 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. [1913 Webster]
- Fasting he went to sleep, and fasting waked. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Thou didst fast and weep for the child. --2 Sam. xii. 21. [1913 Webster]
- Fasting day, a fast day; a day of fasting. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'fasting'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abstinence,
- Albigensianism,
- anchoritic monasticism,
- anchoritism,
- asceticism,
- austerity,
- Catharism,
- cold purgatorial fires,
- Day of Atonement,
- dog-hungry,
- empty,
- eremitism,
- famished,
- famishing,
- flagellation,
- Franciscanism,
- hair shirt,
- half-famished,
- half-starved,
- hungering,
- hungry,
- Lenten,
- lustration,
- maceration,
- mendicantism,
- monachism,
- monasticism,
- mortification,
- peckish,
- penance,
- penitence,
- penitential act,
- penitential exercise,
- pinched with hunger,
- purgation,
- purgatory,
- puritanism,
- quadragesimal,
- ravening,
- ravenous,
- repentance,
- rigor,
- Sabbatarianism,
- sackcloth and ashes,
- self-denial,
- self-mortification,
- sharp-set,
- starved,
- starving,
- Trappism,
- uneating,
- unfed,
- unfilled,
- voluntary poverty,
- voracious,
- Waldensianism,
- wolfish,
- Yoga,
- Yom Kippur
Words containing 'Fasting'
- Fast,
- Fast by,
- Fasted,
- Fastly,
- Fastness,
- very fast,
- Fast and loose,
- Fast beside,
- Fast day,
- Fast liver,
- Fast pulley,
- Fasting day,
- Hard and fast,
- Head fast,
- Stern fast,
- To break fast,
- To make fast,
- To stand fast,
- Tub fast,
- fast asleep,
- fast break,
- fast buck,
- fast dye,
- fast food,
- fast lane,
- fast of ab,
- fast of av,
- fast of esther,
- fast of gedaliah,
- fast of tammuz,
- fast of tevet,
- fast of the firstborn,
- fast one,
- fast reactor,
- fast track,
- hold fast,
- stand fast,
- Fast and loose pulleys,
- Fast-handed,
- To break one's fast,
- acid-fast,
- fast time scale,
- fast-breaking,
- fast-flying,
- fast-footed,
- fast-growing,
- fast-paced,
- hard-and-fast,
- major fast day,
- minor fast day,
- pull a fast one,
- pull a fast one on