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单词 fast week
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fast week
fast week n. now historical a week appointed for or observed with fasting; spec. (in Scottish presbyterian churches) the week preceding the yearly or half-yearly celebration of Communion, and including the preparatory sacramental fast day (fast day n. 1c).
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1610 T. Bell Catholique Triumph xxviii. 369 I bid not to Fast weekes, nor to double Fastes; but at the least, let vs keepe euery day without excessiue eating.
1762 tr. J. Davies Rep. Cases Law Ireland 191 The fast-week, next before the feast of Pentecost, was called rogation-week.
1845 Morning Chron. 7 Nov. 3/5 There has been something like a panic in both the English and Scotch Share markets—a sort of pause for consideration,..increased in Glasgow by the closing of the Exchanges during the sacramental fast week.
1891 J. M. Barrie Little Minister I. iii. 33 A garret in which the minister could sleep if he had guests, as during the Fast week.
1948 M. Lochhead Scots Househ. in Eighteenth Cent. 72 The preaching week—or fast-week, as it was generally called—which preceded the annual celebration of Holy Communion.
2015 J. Dawson John Knox xv. 245 By positioning the Fast week to run through Ash Wednesday, it coincided with the start of the great penitential season of Lent.
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