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 Fast, n.
 1. Abstinence from food; omission to take nourishment.
    Surfeit is the father of much fast.   --Shak.
 2. Voluntary abstinence from food, for a space of time, as a spiritual discipline, or as a token of religious humiliation.
 3. A time of fasting, whether a day, week, or longer time; a period of abstinence from food or certain kinds of food; as, an annual fast.
 Fast day, a day appointed for fasting, humiliation, and religious offices as a means of invoking the favor of God.
 To break one's fast, to put an end to a period of abstinence by taking food; especially, to take one's morning meal; to breakfast.