Xerophagy vs. Bread — What's the Difference?

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 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.

A restrictive diet (of bread and water, for example) as a punishment or religious form of discipline.

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.

Among the primitive Christians, the living on a diet of dry food in Lent and on other fasts.

Food in general, regarded as necessary for sustaining life

Something that nourishes; sustenance

Means of support; livelihood

(Slang) Money.

To coat with bread crumbs, as before cooking

(uncountable)

A foodstuff made by baking dough made from cereals.

Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.

(countable) Any variety of bread.

Money.

Breadth.

A piece of embroidery; a braid.

(transitive) To coat with breadcrumbs.

To make broad; spread.

(transitive) To form in meshes; net.

To spread.

To cover with bread crumbs, preparatory to cooking; as, breaded cutlets.

An article of food made from flour or meal by moistening, kneading, and baking.

Food; sustenance; support of life, in general.

Food made from dough of flour or meal and usually raised with yeast or baking powder and then baked

Informal terms for money

Cover with bread crumbs;