[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That fasts, lit. and fig.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 151. Fastynge, jejunus, impransus.
c. 1470. Henry the Minstrel, Wallace, V. 1034. For fastand folk to dyne gud tym war now.
1525. Ld. Berners, Froiss., II. ccxli. [ccxxxviii.] 745. Sir, are ye fastynge?
a. 1592. H. Smith, Serm. (1866), II. 213. Though he be like a drone, yet doth he, even the non-resident, keep his benefice fasting, feasting himself.
1595. Shaks., John, III. i. 260. A fasting Tyger.
1847. Emerson, Poems, Initial Love, Wks. (Bohn), I. 456.
| Inquisitive, and fierce, and fasting, | |
| Restless, predatory, hasting. |
Hence † Fastingly adv., in a fasting manner, abstemiously, sparingly. Obs.
c. 1460. J. Russell, Bk. Nurture, 666.
| Furst speke with þe pantere or officere of þe spicery | |
| For frutes a-fore mete to ete þem fastynyely. |
1566. Drant, Horace Sat., vi. H viij b.
| At lenghthe bespeakes the cytie mouse: my frende why lyke you still, | |
| To lyue in countrye fastynglye, vpon a craggie hill? |
a. 1616. Beaum. & Fl., Wit without Money, IV. v.
| Val. You shall stay till I talke with you, | |
| And not dine neither, but fastingly my fury. |
