Crossword clues for fasts
fasts
- Certain periods of self-denial
- Willingly avoids meals
- Skips meals
- Skips feeding
- Purposely eschews meals
- Protests by not taking any courses?
- Protests by not eating
- Protestors' deprivations
- Prepares for surgery, likely
- Prepares for a blood test, likely
- Periods of abstinence
- Observes Ramadan, e.g
- Observes one of the Five Pillars of Islam
- Observes a religious holiday
- Observes a religious day
- Obeys Yom Kippur requirements
- Lenten activities
- Goes without fare
- Goes on a strike of a sort
- Goes completely without food
- Gandhi's protests
- Forgoes meals
- Eschews edibles
- Eats sparingly
- Eats little
- Drastic diets
- Doesn't take anything in
- Doesn't put anything away for a while?
- Diets strenuously
- Consumes less, in a way
- Conducts a hunger strike
- Avoids putting away the dishes?
- Avoids eating
- Avoids courses
- Crash diets
- Admits nothing?
- Prison protests
- Doesn't just diet
- Religious observances, at times
- Some protests
- Takes nothing in
- Some religious observances
- Diets drastically
- Observes a religious holiday, in a way
- Goes on a hunger strike, say
- Observes the Muslim day of Ashura
- Eschews food
- Observes Ramadan, in a way
- Refrains from eating
- Abstains from food
- Observes Yom Kippur
- Ultimate diets
- Ramadan rituals
- Pre-Easter customs
- Observes Lent
- Goes hungry
- Goes without food
- Forgoes food
- Does penance
- [clued elsewhere]
- Extreme diets
- Abstains from eating
- Doesn't eat for a while
- Doesn't eat, for instance
- Stops eating
- Eats nothing
- Doesn't have a thing
- Goes without nourishment
Wiktionary
fasts
n. (plural of fast English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: fast)
Usage examples of "fasts".
The bath and white garment of the novice were an indecent copy of the regeneration of baptism: his sword, which he offered on the altar, was blessed by the ministers of religion: his solemn reception was preceded by fasts and vigils.
Before the eyes of these men it is expedient to eat flesh, to break fasts, and to do in behalf of the liberty of faith things which they hold to be the greatest sins.
For since these men do not act thus from hardened malice, but only from weakness of faith, therefore, in order to avoid giving them offence, we must keep fasts and do other things which they consider necessary.