Meanings of abstain from food in English

The islanders of Crete, before sacrificing to Jupiter, had to abstain from food.

Verily, I shall fast if this king and Gandhari of great fame abstain from food.'

He seemed now to dislike drinking, and thenceforward purposely to abstain from food and from speaking.

By the same rule, if my brother is a glutton, I should abstain from food also.

Islam requires all Muslims to abstain from food, water or smoking during daylight hours throughout the festival.

It is a month in which Muslims abstain from food before the break of dawn till sunset.

The most important single therapeutic factor is to abstain from food during pain and active disease processes.

Pigeonswing could either abstain from food, or could indulge in it without measure, just as occasion offered.

Spirit controls often force their subjects to abstain from food, thus rendering them still more negative and submissive.

The Ramadan fast is a time when Muslims are required to abstain from food and drink during daylight hours.

There was much speculation as to the cause of this morbid determination to abstain from food and from having communication with anyone.

Ramadan is the annual month on the Islamic lunar calendar during which Muslims abstain from food, drink and sex between dawn and sunset.

The two of them followed the Buddha into town and then returned in silence, for they intended to abstain from food that day.

He was strictly advised to abstain altogether from political business, but he might as well have attempted to abstain from food and drink.

The month-long festival stipulates that Muslims should abstain from food and drink during daylight hours, but in exceptional cases the period can be deferred.

It was not to be suicide-myreligion saved me from that-butdeath by exhaustion, by continuing to abstain from food, having no desire for it.