| 单词 | fast breaker |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfast breaker C1. As a modifier, with the sense ‘of, relating to, or appropriate for a fast’, as fast breaker, fast prayer, fast sermon, etc. ΚΠ 1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes III. iii. v. 516 (running title) Slutterie a Fast-breaker. 1681 A. Wood Life & Times (1892) II. 514 Mr. Birch..preached the fast sermon at S. Marie's. 1761 London Chron. 5 Feb. 133/3 Next Week will be published..On the Divine Patience, and Men's Abuse of it; a Fast Sermon. 1874 Evangelical Repository (Philadelphia) Oct. 197 The month of Ramadan is the annual fast of Mohammedans. As they reckon time by lunar months, the fast month goes back every year five and a half days. 1924 P. Z. Strodach Church Year 90 Naturally the fast period would be lengthened. 2008 A. Guibbory in D. Loewenstein & P. Stevens Early Mod. Nationalism iv. 118 Fast sermons flourished at the end of James' reign.., and were revived with the Long Parliament. < as lemmas |
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