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Home Dictionary Name: fastFast-day
Fast-day, a day of mortification by religious ab-stinence. See a list of Church of England Fast-days in the Prayer-book Calendar Scheduled to the (English) Calendar (New Style) Act, 1750 (24 Geo. 3, c. 23), and see also the still unrepealed 5 & 6 Edw. 6, c. 3 (printed in the second revised edition of the statutes published by authority in 1888), by which the eves of Christmas Day and other holy days are 'commanded to be fasted,' and arch-bishops, bishops and others are authorized to inquire of every person offending in the premises, and to punish offenders by the censures of the Church, and to enjoin them such penance as shall be to the spiritual judge by his discretion thought meet and convenient. 2 & 3 Edw. 6, c. 19, however, providing for abstinence from flesh in Lent or on Fridays or Saturdays, which was expressly saved by s. 4 of this Act, has been repealed by 19 & 20 Vict. c. 64, with many other disused Acts.Fast-days may also be appointed on special occasions by royal proclamati...
Fastermans, or fasting-men
Fastermans, or fasting-men [homines habentes, Lat.], menin repute and substance; pledges, sureties, or bondsmen, who, according to the Saxon policy, were fast bound to answer for each other's peaceable behaviour....
fast flying
moving or functioning quickly and energetically as a fast flying messenger...
Fastness
The state of being fast and firm firmness fixedness security faithfulness...
hard and fast
invariable firmly established as hard and fast regulations...
Hand-fasting
Hand-fasting, betrothment.A behothed; marrying by clasping another's hand and agreeing to live together as husband and wife, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 720....
Bairam
Either of two Mohammedan festivals of which one the Lesser Bairam is held at the close of the fast called Ramadan and the other the Greater Bairam seventy days after the fast...
Commerce destroyer
A very fast unarmored lightly armed vessel designed to capture or destroy merchant vessels of an enemy Not being intended to fight they may be improvised from fast passenger steamers...
high speed
same as fast as fast film Opposite of slow...
Maigre
Belonging to a fast day or fast as a maigre day...
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