1. the act or practice of refraining from some action or from the use of something, esp alcohol 2. (Roman Catholic Church) chiefly RC Church the practice of refraining from specific kinds of food or drink, esp from meat, as an act of penance [C13: via Old French from Latin abstinent...
Wednesdays and Fridays are still days of penance in most Eastern Catholic Churches (and among the Orthodox), but in the Roman Church, only Fridays, as memorials to the day our Lord was crucified, remain as weekly penitential days on which abstinence from meat and other forms of penance are ...
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1. the act or practice of refraining from some action or from the use of something, esp alcohol 2. (Roman Catholic Church) chiefly RC Church the practice of refraining from specific kinds of food or drink, esp from meat, as an act of penance [C13: via Old French from Latin abstinent...
2. (Roman Catholic Church) chiefly RC Church the practice of refraining from specific kinds of food or drink, esp from meat, as an act of penance [C13: via Old French from Latin abstinentia, from abstinēre to abstain] ˈabstinent adj ˈabstinently adv Collins English Dictionary –...
1. the act or practice of refraining from some action or from the use of something, esp alcohol 2. (Roman Catholic Church) chiefly RC Church the practice of refraining from specific kinds of food or drink, esp from meat, as an act of penance [C13: via Old French from Latin abstinent...
1. the act or practice of refraining from some action or from the use of something, esp alcohol 2. (Roman Catholic Church) chiefly RC Church the practice of refraining from specific kinds of food or drink, esp from meat, as an act of penance [C13: via Old French from Latin abstinent...