Xerophagy

Xerophagy

Xerophagy means 'dry eating'. In some instances, this means bread and water only - particularly if being used as a form of discipline. In other cases, such as the Lenten fast, vegetables cooked with water and salt are eaten, and also such things as fruit, nuts, bread and honey. Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Christians practice xerophagy during Lent and other fasts. More recently, involuntary xerophagy is imposed on miscreants as punishment, adding to the misery of their confinement. The Uniform Code of Military Justice permits commanding officers of United States Navy ships to use xerophagy as a disciplinary punishment for minor offenses without the intervention of a court-martial, "...if imposed upon a person attached to or embarked in a vessel, confinement on bread and water or diminished rations for not more than three consecutive days."


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  • Xerophagy — Xe*roph a*gy, 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] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • xerophagy — [n] fasting hunger strike, keeping fast, Lenten fast, strict fast, without food, xerophagia; concept 169 …   New thesaurus

  • xerophagy — /zi rof euh jee/, n., pl. xerophagies. a Lenten fast observed esp. during Holy Week, constituting the strictest fast in the Eastern Church. Also, xerophagia /zear euh fay jeuh, jee euh/. [1650 60; < LL xerophagia < Gk xerophagía, deriv. of… …   Universalium

  • xerophagy — noun /zɪəˈɹɒfədʒi/ A restrictive diet (of bread and water, for example) as a punishment or religious form of discipline …   Wiktionary

  • xerophagy — eating of dry food; fast of dry food in the week preceding Easter Ecclesiastical Terms Feeding and Eating …   Phrontistery dictionary

  • xerophagy — n. fast which includes the eating of dry foods only …   English contemporary dictionary

  • xerophagy — xe·roph·a·gy …   English syllables

  • xerophagy — A diet of bread and water …   Grandiloquent dictionary

  • xerophagy — …   Useful english dictionary

  • xerophagia, xerophagy — The eating of dry foodstuffs; subsisting on a dry diet. [xero + G. phago, to eat] …   Medical dictionary

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