- xerophagy
- noun /zɪəˈɹɒfədʒi/A restrictive diet (of bread and water, for example) as a punishment or religious form of discipline.
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Xerophagy — means dry eating . In some instances, this means bread and water only particularly if being used as a form of discipline. In other cases, such as the Lenten fast, vegetables cooked with water and salt are eaten, and also such things as fruit,… … Wikipedia
Xerophagy — Xe*roph a*gy, n. [L. xerophagia, Gr. ?; ? dry + ? to eat.] Among the primitive Christians, the living on a diet of dry food in Lent and on other fasts. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
xerophagy — [n] fasting hunger strike, keeping fast, Lenten fast, strict fast, without food, xerophagia; concept 169 … New thesaurus
xerophagy — /zi rof euh jee/, n., pl. xerophagies. a Lenten fast observed esp. during Holy Week, constituting the strictest fast in the Eastern Church. Also, xerophagia /zear euh fay jeuh, jee euh/. [1650 60; < LL xerophagia < Gk xerophagía, deriv. of… … Universalium
xerophagy — eating of dry food; fast of dry food in the week preceding Easter Ecclesiastical Terms Feeding and Eating … Phrontistery dictionary
xerophagy — n. fast which includes the eating of dry foods only … English contemporary dictionary
xerophagy — xe·roph·a·gy … English syllables
xerophagy — A diet of bread and water … Grandiloquent dictionary
xerophagy — … Useful english dictionary
xerophagia, xerophagy — The eating of dry foodstuffs; subsisting on a dry diet. [xero + G. phago, to eat] … Medical dictionary
