Xerophagy vs. Bread — What's the Difference?
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Difference Between Xerophagy and Bread
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Definitions
Xerophagy
Xerophagy ("dry eating", from Greek ξηρός "dry" and φαγεῖν "eat") is a form of fasting observed in Eastern Christianity during Great Lent and certain other fasts. "Dry" primarily refers to food cooked without oil.
Bread
Bread is a staple food prepared from a dough of flour and water, usually by baking. Throughout recorded history, it has been a prominent food in large parts of the world.
Xerophagy
A restrictive diet (of bread and water, for example) as a punishment or religious form of discipline.
Bread
A staple food made from flour or meal mixed with other dry and liquid ingredients, usually combined with a leavening agent, and kneaded, shaped into loaves, and baked.
Xerophagy
Among the primitive Christians, the living on a diet of dry food in Lent and on other fasts.
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Bread
Food in general, regarded as necessary for sustaining life
"If bread is the first necessity of life, recreation is a close second" (Edward Bellamy).
Bread
Something that nourishes; sustenance
"My bread shall be the anguish of my mind" (Edmund Spenser).
Bread
Means of support; livelihood
Earn one's bread.
Bread
(Slang) Money.
Bread
To coat with bread crumbs, as before cooking
Breaded the fish fillets.
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Bread
(uncountable)
Bread
A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals.
We made sandwiches with the bread we bought from the bakery.
Any leftover bread can be put into the pudding.
Bread
Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.
Bread
(countable) Any variety of bread.
Bread
Money.
Bread
Breadth.
Bread
A piece of embroidery; a braid.
Bread
(transitive) To coat with breadcrumbs.
Breaded fish
Bread
To make broad; spread.
Bread
(transitive) To form in meshes; net.
Bread
To spread.
Bread
To cover with bread crumbs, preparatory to cooking; as, breaded cutlets.
Bread
An article of food made from flour or meal by moistening, kneading, and baking.
Bread
Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.
Give us this day our daily bread.
Bread
Food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked
Bread
Informal terms for money
Bread
Cover with bread crumbs;
Bread the pork chops before frying them