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xerophagy|zɪəˈrɒfədʒɪ|
Also 7 -fag-.
[ad. Gr. ξηροϕαγία: see xero- and -phagy.]
The eating of dry food, esp. as form of fasting practised in the early church.
1656Blount Glossogr., Xerophagy..the eating dry meats. 1671F. S. tr. Daille's Serm. Colossians ii. 2 The stations, the xerofagies, and other disciplines of the Montanists. 1725tr. Dupin's Eccl. Hist. 17th C. I. v. 157 In the Week which precedes the Feast of Easter, the Fast was more rigorous, and in some Places they eat nothing but dry'd things; which they call'd Xerophagy. 1884Catholic Dict. (1897) 558/2 (Lent) Some kept the fast of extraordinary strictness known as xerophagy for one day. 1889Farrar Lives Fathers I. v. 190 note, As for xerophagies, says Tertullian, they charge them with being a novel title for a pretended duty. |