ˈfasting-day
[f. fasting vbl. n. + day. Cf. fasten-day.]
= fast-day.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 29056 (Cotton Galba) Þe thing þat þou þiself suld ett if it no fasting day þan ware. 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. ix. iii. (1495) 347 In eche of thise foure tymes ben thre fastynge dayes. c 1430 Two Cookery-bks. 17 Do it in fastyng dayis & serue it forth. 1552 Bk. Com. Prayer Communion, Any holye dayes or fasting daies. 1656 Trapp Comm. 1 Cor. vii. 5 Fasting-days are soul-fatting days. a 1711 Ken Man. of Prayers Wks. (1838) 424 All the fasting I advise you to, is only to some fasting-day. 1850 A. J. Stephens Bk. Com. Prayer II. 1150 Notice..of the fasting days..is commonly neglected. |