| 单词 | fast book |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfast book fast book n. now rare (historical in later use) a book containing special forms of prayer to be used during a period of fasting.Such books were produced to facilitate publicly proclaimed days or longer periods of fasting, humility, and prayer intended to secure divine aid or favour for a particular purpose, in a time of disease, adversity, etc.; cf. fast day n. 1b. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > book (general) > service book (general) > [noun] > for fast-days fast book1631 1631 E. Reeve Christian Divinitie xci. 26 It is the last of the complaints, which the holy Fathers of the Church have made in the sacred prayer after the Letany in the last Fast booke. 1637 W. Laud Speech in Starr-chamber 20 The Prayer for seasonable weather was purged out of this last Fast-booke. 1848 Brit. Mag. Oct. 379 The Fast-Book was the Form of Prayer to be used during the continuance of the plague at that time. 1972 R. T. Hughes H. Burton (Ph.D. thesis, Univ. Iowa) vi. 149 Many of the objections Burton made to changes in the fast book and the prayerbook were restated in the Newes. 2013 C. Lane Laudians & Elizabethan Church (2016) iii. 91 He [sc. William Laud] had omitted a key theological passage in the fast-book which stated that fasts do not gain a person merit with God. < as lemmas |
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