fasting dayn.
/ˈfɑːstɪŋ deɪ/, /ˈfastɪŋ deɪ/, U.S. /ˈfæstɪŋ ˌdeɪ/ 1. In religious contexts: a day appointed for or marked by abstinence from all or some kinds of food or drink. Cf. fast day n.
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society > faith > worship > liturgical year > fast > [noun] > period of > day
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > fasting > [noun] > a fast > prescribed or appointed fast
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a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 335 Men of religioun eteþ bernakes in fasting dayes, for þey comeþ nouȝt of flesche..but þey beeþ ful lewedliche i-meued, for resoun is contrarie to þat doynge.
a1425 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Galba) l. 29056 Þe thing þat þou þiself suld ett If it no fasting day [a1400 Vesp. fastin dai] þan ware.
a1450 in T. Austin Two 15th-cent. Cookery-bks. (1888) 17 Ȝif þou wolt a-forse it in maner of charlet, do it in fastyng dayis, & serue it forth.
1552 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16279) Administr. Lordes Supper sig. M.viii Any holye dayes or fasting daies.
1656 J. Trapp Comm. 1 Cor. vii. 5 Fasting-days are soul-fatting days.
1675 T. Ken Man. Prayers Winchester Coll. (new ed.) 60 All the Fasting I advise you to, is only on some Fasting-day.
1708 Two Disc. 51 If I abstain on a Fast-day from..any Meats, that is not because I think any of them Vnlawful..(for I eat any out of a Fasting Day).
1850 A. J. Stephens Bk. Common Prayer II. 1150 Notice..of the fasting days..is commonly neglected.
1905 Light of Cross in Twentieth Cent. III. iii. 229 Sunday is never a fasting day because it is the Lord's Day.
2020 @EINS_Institute 23 Apr. in twitter.com (accessed 2 Dec. 2020) Tomorrow is 1st day of Ramadan; does this mean it starts tonight, when Friday begins (and tomorrow is a fasting day)?
2. More generally: a day on which a person fasts, typically as part of a diet, or for medical reasons.
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1838 J. Comstock Tongue of Time x. 363 After two days, his fever left him and his disease abated. Yet still he persisted, and three days afterwards, making five fasting days in the whole, Atticus was a dead man.
1887 Med. Rec. 16 June 87/2 On the second fasting day the urine contained pepsin in large amounts.
1949 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 10 Dec. 1346 lf weight still not reduced, order one fasting day.
2020 Times Now (New Delhi) (Nexis) 17 Oct. For your fasting days, follow this quick recipe which will aid weight loss as well.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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