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Definition of Fasting

1. Noun. Abstaining from food.

Definition of Fasting

1. Verb. (present participle of fast) ¹

2. Noun. Action of the verb ''to fast''. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Fasting

1. abstention from eating [n -S]

Medical Definition of Fasting

1. Abstaining from all food. (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Fasting

Literary usage of Fasting

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"Mechanical formalism was ception of occasionally opposed by the remark fasting, that a devout life is more important than frequent fasting (Shepherd of ..."

2. Monographic Medicine by William Robie Patten Emerson, Guido Guerrini, William Brown, Wendell Christopher Phillips, John Whitridge Williams, John Appleton Swett, Hans Günther, Mario Mariotti, Hugh Grant Rowell (1916)
"(/) Behavior of the Salts During fasting Since the chlorids excreted normally are derived chiefly from the food, the excretion falls rapidly on fasting. ..."

3. The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edvard Westermarck (1908)
"One reason is, no doubt, that fasting is a natural expression of contrition, ... Nay, even when fasting is resorted to as a cure in the case of distress or ..."

4. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities: Being a Continuation of the by Samuel Cheetham (1880)
"It does not appear on what days of the mouth they were kept, but their name implies that they were something over and above the usual fasting days. ..."

5. The Journal of Experimental Medicine by Rockefeller University, Rockefeller Institute, Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1899)
"In the following AVC shall report the results of some experiments which we have made to ascertain the influence of fasting upon the bactericidal action of ..."

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