Word: fastedness
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Therefore Jews throughout the world heeded the call of Colonel Kook, last week, fasted for a day, mourned exceedingly.
Louis IX, King of France, Saint Louis, who bought the crown of thorns, parts of the true cross, the holy lance; Louis, who built Sainte Chapelle; Louis, who fasted, loved sermons, heard two masses each day (dressing at midnight for matins) ; Louis, who surrounded himself with chanting priests on horseback...
The past week saw the beginning of Ramadan?the Muslam month of fasting. Politicians also fasted.
¶ Judge Elbert H. Gary, John D. Rockefeller Jr. and a sub-committee of the Citizens' Committee of 1,000 break fasted off the White House table on buckwheat cakes and sausages, urged Mr. Coolidge that the Volstead Act must be enforced by precept and example.
SOCKING, the Eton College term for a treat, synonymous with CHUCK at Westminster and other schools. Believed to be derived from the monkish word SOKE. An old writer speaks of a pious man "who did not SOKE for three days", meaning he fasted.