单词 | fasten day |
释义 | > as lemmasfasten day fasten day n. (in religious contexts) a day appointed for or marked by abstinence from all or some kinds of food or drink; a fast day. [Compare Middle Dutch vastendach (Dutch vastendag ), German Fastentag and (with consonant dissimilation) Old Frisian festeldei (West Frisian fēsteldei ), Middle Dutch vasteldach , Middle Low German vasteldach , Middle High German vasteltac (German (now regional) Fasteltag ). Compare also fast day n. and the foreign-language forms cited at that entry.] ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > fast > [noun] > period of > day fasten dayeOE fasting daya1387 fast daya1400 eOE (Kentish) Charter: Oswulf & Beornðryð to Christ Church, Canterbury (Sawyer 1188) in F. E. Harmer Sel. Eng. Hist. Docs. 9th & 10th Cent. (1914) 2 Gif hit ðonne festendæg sie, selle mon uuęge cæsa. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 236 Ich hit dude ilenten ifesten daȝes inhalidaȝes. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 28464 Bath lenten tide and fasten day Oft haue i broken gain my lay. 1536 in C. Innes Registrum Episcopatus Brechinensis (1856) II. 318 The said George sall werk all festual ewinnis that beis fastryn dais quhill four houris efter none. 1608 H. Clapham Errour Left Hand 18 I thinke my wife will become one [sc. a nun] ere long, she is giuen so to obserue fasten-daies. < as lemmas |
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