| 单词 | to break one's fast |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto break one's fast c. to break one's fast: to put an end to fasting by eating; esp. to eat after the night's fast, take the first meal of the day; to breakfast. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating meals > eat meal [verb (intransitive)] > eat breakfast to break one's fastc1460 jenticulate1623 breakfast1679 c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn Prol. l. 71 Ete & be merry,..why breke yee nowt yeur fast? ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. lii Be vp betyme and breke thy fast before day. 1584 T. Cogan Hauen of Health ccxiii. 197 These old men brake their fast commonly with hony. 1620 T. Venner Via Recta viii. 171 I aduise them, not to be altogether fasting till dinner, but to breake their fast. 1653 I. Walton Compl. Angler i. 2 My purpose is to be at Hodsden..before I break my fast . View more context for this quotation 1665 J. Evelyn Mem. (1857) I. 375 I brake fast this morning with the King. 1808 W. Scott Marmion i. xxxii. 54 And knight and squire had broke their fast. < as lemmas |
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