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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[L.

xerophagia

, Gr. [GREEK];

ξηρόσ

dry + [GREEK] to eat.]

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

Noun.

[Gr., dry; to eat.] The eating of dry meats, a sort of fast among the primitive Christians.