xerophagy

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: xe=roph=a=gy

CIDE DICTIONARY

xerophagy, n. [L. xerophagia, Gr. ; dry + to eat.].

 Among the primitive Christians, the living on a diet of dry food in Lent and on other fasts.  [1913 Webster]

ROGET THESAURUS

xerophagy

Fasting

N fasting, xerophagy, famishment, starvation, fast, jour maigre, fast day, banyan day, Lent, quadragesima, Ramadan, Ramazan, spare diet, meager diet, lenten diet, lenten entertainment, soupe maigre, short commons, Barmecide feast, short rations, lenten, quadragesimal, unfed, starved, half-starved, fasting, hungry.