2. Verb. (third-person singular of fast) ¹
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Definition of Fasts
1. fast [v] - See also: fast
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fasts
Literary usage of Fasts
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Introduction to the Critical Study and Knowledge of the Holy Scriptures by Thomas Hartwell Horne (1856)
"1 V. To prayers the Jews sometimes added fasts, or religious abstinence from
food : these fasts were either public or private. 1. The PUBLIC fasts were ..."
2. Origines Ecclesiasticæ: The Antiquities of the Christian Church. With Two by Joseph Bingham (1856)
"That these were something more than the ordinary fasts of Wednesday and Friday,
seems evident from the name that is given them of fasts of superposition, ..."
3. Building Construction and Superintendence by Frank Eugene Kidder (1915)
"Sash-fasts consist of two plates secured one to each meeting-rail and ... A great
change has taken place in the design of the sash-fasts in common use since ..."
4. The American Indian (Uh-nish-in-na-ba) by Elijah Middlebrook Haines (1888)
"fasts AND FEASTS. The American Tribes had a Custom of fasts and Feasts — Custom
of fasts Not Frequent — Custom of Feasts Quite Frequent — Feasts a Favorite ..."
5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"In postexilic times the tendency was to multiply fasts, in face of the clear ...
Weekly day as fast-days, and whoever wished fasts. to fast did so on those ..."
6. History of America Before Columbus: According to Documents and Approved Authors by Peter De Roo (1900)
"Some of the fasts held by the priests lasted one hundred and sixty days; and
owing to the insufficient food allowed and terrible mutilations practised, ..."
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