資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Fast \Fast\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Fasted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Fasting}.] [AS. f[ae]stan; akin to D. vasten, OHG.
   fast[=e]n, G. fasten, Icel. & Sw. fasta, Dan. faste, Goth.
   fastan to keep, observe, fast, and prob. to E. fast firm.]
   1. To abstain from food; to omit to take nourishment in whole
      or in part; to go hungry.

            Fasting he went to sleep, and fasting waked.
                                                  --Milton.

   2. To practice abstinence as a religious exercise or duty; to
      abstain from food voluntarily for a time, for the
      mortification of the body or appetites, or as a token of
      grief, or humiliation and penitence.

            Thou didst fast and weep for the child. --2 Sam.
                                                  xii. 21.

   {Fasting day}, a fast day; a day of fasting.