fast

  • 51Fast —    The sole fast required by the law of Moses was that of the great Day of Atonement (q.v.), Lev. 23:26 32. It is called the fast (Acts 27:9).    The only other mention of a periodical fast in the Old Testament is in Zech. 7:1 7; 8:19, from which …

    Easton's Bible Dictionary

  • 52fast — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun ADJECTIVE ▪ long VERB + FAST ▪ go on, keep, observe ▪ All members of the religious community keep these fasts. ▪ …

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  • 53fast — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) v. i. starve, diet, abstain. See asceticism. adj. swift, speedy, fleet, quick, rapid; secure, firm, permanent, steadfast, profound; wild, rakish, dissipated. See velocity, junction, impurity, tenacity,… …

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  • 54fast — 1. Durable; resistant to change; applied to stained microorganisms which cannot be decolorized. SEE ALSO: acid f.. 2. Not eating. [A.S. foest, firm, fixed] * * * ferment active solution therapy; Fitness, Arthritis and Seniors Trial; flowassisted …

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  • 55fast — I adv. to hold fast to (they held fast to their beliefs) II n. 1) to observe a fast 2) to break a fast * * * [fɑːst] to break a fast to observe a fast to hold fast to (they held fast to their beliefs) …

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  • 56fast — FAST1 s.n. Splendoare, măreţie, pompă2, lux, strălucire. – Din fr. faste. Trimis de cornel, 08.05.2004. Sursa: DEX 98  FAST2, Ă, faşti, ste, adj. (livr.; despre zile, împrejurări, evenimente) Favorabil, fericit (pentru cineva). – Din fr. faste,… …

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  • 57fast — I 1. adjective 1) a fast pace Syn: speedy, quick, swift, rapid, high speed, accelerated, express, blistering, breakneck, hasty, hurried; informal nippy, scorching, supersonic; Brit.; informal cracking …

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  • 58fast — 1. verb /fɑːst,fæst/ To abstain from or eat very little food; to abstain from food for religious reasons. It is at the core of the Vision Quest, the solitary period of fasting and closeness to the earth to discover ones life path and purpose. 2 …

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  • 59fast — [OE] Widely dissimilar as they now seem, fast ‘quick’ and fast ‘abstain from food’ in fact come from the same ultimate source. This was Germanic *fastuz, which denoted ‘firm’. That underlying sense persists in various contexts, such as ‘hold… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 60fast — [OE] Widely dissimilar as they now seem, fast ‘quick’ and fast ‘abstain from food’ in fact come from the same ultimate source. This was Germanic *fastuz, which denoted ‘firm’. That underlying sense persists in various contexts, such as ‘hold… …

    Word origins