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A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

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First published 1951 (DOST Vol. II).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Quotation dates: 1399-1420, 1490-1650

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Fasting, vbl. n. Also: fastinge, -yng, -ine. [ME. fasting (Wyclif), earlier vestinge, festunge (c 1175).]

1. Observance of fast; a season of abstinence from food.a1400 Legends of the Saints xviii. 1136.
Eftyre, the next lentryn, Quhen be-gonnyn was the fastine
a1400 Ib. xxxvi. 868.
Besyly this can scho crafe With prayere gret & fastinge
c1420 Wynt. iv. 2593.
Tha thre dayis in hard fastyng Scho bade
c1420 Ib. viii. 2548.
Sum off thare falowys … for hungyr in lang fastyng Wery ware
c1490 Irland Asl. MS. I. 38/26.
The prelatis has power to determe the tyme and maner of fasting
c1500-c1512 Dunb. xl. 18.
Fra our lang fasting ȝe ȝow refrene
1551 Hamilton Catechism 20/2.
That fasting and almous deidis disponis a man to devot praiar
1570 St. A. Kirk S. 339.
Wyth preaching of the Word, exercising of fastein [etc.]
c1650 Spalding II. 209.
We wes deavit for fasting, praying, praising, when Generall Leslie wes in the feildis

2. attrib. with day, Sabbath, Sunday.a1500 Henr. Fab. 2026.
To get sum fische aganis thir fasting dayis
c1490 Irland Asl. MS. I. 74/8.
I haue nocht detfully … kepit the fasting dayis
c1500-c1512 Dunb. ix. 83.
To kepe the festuall and the fasting day
a1568 Scott i. 76.
On fasting dayis, thai wer nocht brint nor hangit
1629 Dundonald Par. Rec. 287.
[They] broght home thair sheep from the mures the last Sabbath, being a Fasting Sabbath
1629 Ib. 288.
Simon Cauldwal … to mak his repentance … for bringing home his sheip vpon the Fasting Sonday
1641 Dunferm. Kirk S. 9.
Jon Smart, flesher, being convict for selling a carkois of beefe, … the last fasting day

3. Fasting drink, a drink without having had a meal.1620 Grant Chart. 323.
For the fasting drink thair and sum breid

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