单词 | fasting month |
释义 | > as lemmasfasting month C1. As a modifier, designating a period of time appointed for or observed with fasting, as fasting month, fasting time, fasting week.Recorded earliest in fasting day n. ΚΠ a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 335 Þere beeþ bernakes [L. bernaces] foules liche to wylde gees... Men of religioun eteþ bernakes in fasting dayes. 1573 J. Bridges Supremacie Christian Princes 364 Socrates writing..not onely of fasting times, but of the meates also. 1640 T. Fuller Joseph's Coat 148 These seven leane Eares, these seven leane Kine, the seven Fasting Weeks in Lent, are now begun. 1728 A. Campbell Ἀρετη-λογια 158 Nothing consequently can be more Ridiculous, than for the Romish Clergy to tell us, that any Part of Religion consists in Fasting Days, and Fasting Weeks. 1851 Jrnl. Indian Archipel. & Eastern Asia 5 30 His mother declared that when at the breast he never tasted milk during the fasting month. 1932 Jrnl. Biblical Lit. 51 192 This extensive calendar of fasting periods points to local customary usage in the Arabian religion. 2020 @bai_mina 22 May in twitter.com (accessed 19 Oct. 2020) In #Iran you can't eat in public now in fasting month #Ramadan. < as lemmas |
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