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▪ I. † ˈfasting, vbl. n.1 Obs.
[f. fast v.1 + -ing1.]
1. The action of the vb. fast1; also attrib.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. xxv. (Tollem. MS), Cipris is a medicinal tre of couenable and fastynge vertu. c1440Promp. Parv. 158 Festynge to a thynge, confixio. 1660Hexham, De anckers aen den timmer, a fasting of ankers to the Timber.
b. fasting penny (dial.): = ‘fastening penny’; see fastening 1 b.
1691Ray N.-C. Words, Festing-penny.
2. = fastening 3.
a1400–50Alexander 2590 It stonaid þam all For ferd þe festing suld faile.
▪ II. fasting, vbl. n.2|ˈfɑːstɪŋ, ˈfæst-|
[f. fast v.2 + -ing1.]
1. The action of the vb. fast; abstinence from food; an instance of this.
c1175Lamb. Hom. 207 Ich bide þe..bi his eadi festunge iþe wildernesse. c1250Old Kent. Serm. in O.E. Misc. (1872) 28 Si mirre signefiet uastinge. 1340Ayenb. 33 Be uestinges and be wakinges. 1480Caxton Chron. Eng. ccix. 191 He was so feble for his moch fastyng that he was dede almost. 1579Fulke Heskins' Parl. 530 Although fasting for merite bee iustly punishable by statute. 1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. v. viii. 388 Even fasting it self is meat and drink to him. 1840Dickens Old C. Shop viii, Corporal punishment, fasting, and other tortures and terrors. 1873W. K. Sullivan O'Curry's Anct. Irish I. Introd. 283 A Trosca or fasting was made by the plaintiff going to the defendant's house, and remaining there for a certain time..before making his distress.
†2. A season of abstinence from food, a fast.
1382Wyclif Acts xxvii. 9 And whanne now seylinge was not sykir, for that fasting passide, Poul coumfortide hem. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. ix. iii. (1495) 347 The fastynge of springynge tyme is the fyrst weke of Lente. 1483Caxton G. de la Tour A vj b, The fastynges that she had kept. 1656Artif. Handsom. 81 He bids the Jewes, even in their fastings, to use it.
3. attrib., as fasting-weeds; fasting blood sugar, the concentration of sugar in the blood after a period of fasting; fasting-spittle, the saliva that is in the mouth before one's fast is broken. Also fasting-day.
1460–70Bk. Quintessence 19 Mortifie it wiþ fastynge spotil. 1607Topsell Serpents (1653) 607 If the fasting spittle of a Man fall into the jaws of a Serpent, he certainly dyeth thereof. 1648Herrick Hesper. Fairie Temple 104 Their Holy Oyle, their Fasting-Spittle, Their sacred Salt. 1654Trapp Comm. Esther v. 1 She laid aside her fasting-weeds, and put on her best. 1818Art Preserv. Feet 146 Rubbing them with fasting spittle. 1927Practitioner Feb. 116 If the fasting blood sugar is above 0·14 per cent., especially if it is in the neighbourhood of 0·2 per cent. or over, then diabetes is clearly established. 1968J. Anderson in W. G. Oakley et al. Clinical Diabetes xxvi. 689 In uncomplicated hypo⁓thyroidism the fasting blood sugar is usually normal but may occasionally be low.
▪ III. fasting, ppl. a.|ˈfɑːstɪŋ, ˈfæst-|
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That fasts, lit. and fig.
c1440Promp. Parv. 151 Fastynge, jejunus, impransus. c1470Henry Wallace v. 1034 For fastand folk to dyne gud tym war now. 1525Ld. Berners Froiss. II. ccxli. [ccxxxviii.] 745 Sir, are ye fastynge? a1592H. Smith Serm. (1866) II. 213 Yet doth the non-resident keep his benefice fasting. 1595Shakes. John iii. i. 260 A fasting Tyger. 1847Emerson Poems, Initial Love Wks. (Bohn) I. 456 Inquisitive, and fierce, and fasting.
Hence † ˈfastingly adv., in a fasting manner, abstemiously, sparingly. Obs.
c1460J. Russell Bk. Nurture 667 Furst speke..For frutes a-fore mete to ete þem fastyngely. 1566Drant Horace Sat. vi. H viij b, My frende why lyke you still To lyve in countrye fastynglye uppon a craggie hill? 1616Beaum. & Fl. Wit without Money iv. v, You shall..not dine neither, but fastingly. |