Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Starvation.
- Abstinence; an eating less than usual.
Wiktionary
- n. The ability to live without food.
Etymologies
- Latin (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Mysticism was more central in female religiosity and in female claims to sanctity than in men's, and paramystical phenomena (trances, levitation, stigmata, miraculous inedia, etc.) were far more common in women's mysticism.”
Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
“Sudat pauper foras in opere, dives in cogitatione; hic os aperit oscitatione, ille ructatione; gravius ille fastidio, quam hic inedia cruciatur.”
“Note 76: Chronicon Ebersheimense, p. 450: "Aliqui reditum affectantes inedia consumuntur, puelle etiam multe que virgines exierant gravide revertuntur, et ita liquido datur intelligi, quod hic cursus ex deceptione maligni hostis emanarit, quia multis perditionis causa fuit." back”
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
“Modo nuntiatus est Silius Italicus in Neapolitano suo inedia finisse vitam.”
“C. virefcens, fafciis tribusfufcis j inedia angulata.”
“Cardirial Quirihi? whofe zeatf foir Jqiir reWrri confronts him, win be yotir inedia - tdf with the Holy Father.”
“_inedia et labor_, violent action alternating with repose is inherent.”
“7: Sylverius, bishop of Rome, was first transported to Patara, in Lycia, and at length starved (sub eorum custodia inedia confectus) in the Isle of Palmaria, A.D.”
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4
“Bandarenæ quanquam institutis philosophiæ munitus essem, repugnante tamen natura, memorque vinculi c [o =] jugalis, suspiriis ac lachrymis et inedia quinque dierum, a periculo me vindicavi. ”
“7 Sylverius, bishop of Rome, was first transported to Patara, in Lycia, and at length starved (sub eorum custodia inedia confectus) in the Isle of Palmaria, A.D.”
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