Fasts is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for FASTS in dictionary:

VERB:
• FAST, to abstain from eating
• abstain from all or some kinds of food or drink, especially as a religious observance
• be deprived of all or some kinds of food, especially for medical or experimental reasons
NOUN:
• an act or period of fasting
ADVERB:
• within a short time
• so as to be hard to move; securely
• so as to be hard to wake
• at high speed
ADJECTIVE:
• moving or capable of moving at high speed
• taking place at high speed; taking a short time
• performing or able to perform a particular action quickly
• (of a surface) allowing or producing high-speed movement
• (of a sports field) likely to make the ball bounce or run quickly or to allow competitors to reach a high speed.
• (of a clock or watch) showing a time ahead of the correct time
• firmly fixed or attached
• (of friends) close and loyal
• (of a film) needing only a short exposure
• (of a lens) having a large aperture and therefore suitable for use with short exposure times.
• (of a dye) not fading in light or when washed
• engaging in or involving activities characterized by excitement, extranvagance, and risk-taking
• (of a person) prone to act in an unacceptably familiar way

Words related to FASTS

fast7 fasted10 fasting11

Words that contain FASTS

outfasts11 sitfasts11 tubfasts13 deskfasts17 handfasts16 headfasts16 holdfasts16 makefasts18 breakfasts19 standfasts14 sternfasts13

How to use FASTS in a sentence

• When observing his fasts, he made a point of having bright, shiny garments, made of linen.
• And moreover he accommodated his fasts and feasts and holidays and pilgrimages to the old customs of the people, thereby teaching lessons of worldly wisdom.
• The bishops sent him ironical letters, and hoped his fasts would benefit his soul.
• It taught him another lesson than that of fasts and vigils.
• Every obstacle to the departure of the Winkelried was now removed, and Baptiste and his crew were soon actively engaged in loosening the sails and in casting off the fasts.
• Girls are obliged to keep these fasts after their tenth year, and boys after their fifteenth.
• My friend the dervish arrived soon afterwards, and immediately urged upon me the importance of saying my prayers, keeping fasts, and wearing a long and mortified countenance.
• As the two broke their fasts, questions were put and answered, concerning what had occurred during the hour or two the parties had been separated.
• Just now coming from winter quarters, when I could not preach, I held twelve fasts and twelve vigils.
• Accordingly, he put some food on board, loosened his fasts, and made sail.
• And in those shrines the king observed various fasts, and gave away large quantities of gems.
• In order to practice asceticism, it is the rule to make this time of rest a period of strictest fasts, most diligent study of the holy writings, and deepest meditation.
• These rites they communicated to the Greeks, who observed these fasts more strictly, and with more outward show and solemnity.
• The Mahomedans likewise strictly observe fasting and prayer, and the exactness with which the dervishes perform them, and the lengths of time of their fasts are very remarkable.
• He practiced rigid fasts, and conformed to all the austerity of convent discipline.
• Do not bring our fasts to an end with this fast, O my Lord, nor the covenants Thou hast made with this covenant.
• In each month there are six fasts, including the two uposatha days.
• The Lord Bishop and the Worthy Mother both fear that the Reverend Mother fasts too often, and spends too many hours in vigil.
• Trained to frugal habits in the cloister and habituated to fasts and mortification of the flesh, Luther found the new mode of living which he was compelled to adopt uncongenial.
• Fasting not an ordinary duty, 494 Fasts of the ancient Church, ib.
• Before the eyes of these men it is expedient to eat flesh, to break fasts, and to do in behalf of the liberty of faith things which they hold to be the greatest sins.
• The last bell rang, the fasts were cast off, and the great wheels of the steamer began to turn.
• And his nurse told me, that being married to Mid-lent, he only begot a good number of local adverbs and certain double fasts.
• In my Days of Abstinence I lose a Pound and an half, and on solemn Fasts am two Pound lighter than on other Days in the Year.
• Ecstasy, madness, fasts and vigils seem particularly favourable to divination.
• She fasts during the day, but is allowed a little food and drink very early in the morning.
• My people were religious, and when I was young the family was wont to observe fast days, but never did we have any such long fasts as these were.
• In Scotland, where no church fasts have been kept since the days of John Knox, the custom is unknown.
• As the movement of the ferry-boat was necessarily slow, the Alderman and his companion were enabled to step into it, before the fasts were thrown aboard.
• In the Mohammedan religion there are a great number of fasts and feasts.
• Among many savage tribes, especially in America, such fasts are practised by those who desire communication with spirits.
• The steamer cast off her fasts, and then the din was greater than ever.

Similar words containing FAST without suffix s

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