[f. FASTING vbl. sb. + DAY. Cf. fasten-day.] = FAST-DAY.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 29056 (Cotton Galba).
| Þe thing þat þou þiself suld ett | |
| If it no fasting day þan ware. |
1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., IX. iii. (1495), 347. In eche of thise foure tymes ben thre fastynge dayes.
c. 1420. Two Cookery-bks., 17. Do it in fastyng dayis & serue it forth.
1552. Bk. Com. Prayer, Communion, Any holye dayes or fasting daies.
1656. Trapp, Comm. 1 Cor. vii. 5. Fasting-days are soul-fatting days: prayer is edged and winged thereby.
a. 1711. Ken, Man. of Prayers, Wks. (1838), 424. All the fasting I advise you to, is only to some fasting-day.
1850. A. J. Stephens, Bk. Com. Prayer, II. 1150. Notice … of the fasting days … is commonly neglected.
