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The Roman calendar, which gave the days for festivals, courts, etc., corresponding to a modern almanac.

Fastidiousness; squeamishness. [Obs.] Swift.

Difficult to please; delicate to fault; suited with difficulty; squeamish; as, a fastidious mind or ear; a fastidious appetite. Proud youth ! fastidious of the lower world. Young.

Narrowing towards the top.

Rather fast; also, somewhat dissipated. [Colloq.] Thackeray.

The feeding of the body upon itself, as in fasting; nutrition by consumption of one's own tissues.

om for a bombardman that brought bouge for a country lady or two, that fainted . . . with fasting. B. Jonson .

A meal after fasting, or food in general. The wolves will get a breakfast by my death. Dryden.

Inclined to criticise or find fault; fastidious; captious; censorious; exacting. O gentle lady, do not put me to 't, For I am nothing, if not critical. Shak.

To render dainty, delicate, or fastidious. "Daintified emotion." Sat. rev.

In a dainty manner; nicely; scrupulously; fastidiously; deliciously; prettily.

The quality of being dainty; nicety; niceness; elegance; delicacy; deliciousness; fastidiousness; squeamishness. The daintiness and niceness of our captains Hakluyt. More notorious for the daintiness of the provision . . . than for the massiveness of the dish. Hakewill. The duke exeeded in the daintiness of his leg and…

Requirinig daintles. Hence; Overnice; hard to please; fastidious; sqrupulous; ceremonious. Thew were a fine and Dainty people. Bacon. And let us not be dainty of leave taking, But shift away. Shak. To make dainty, to assume or affect delicacy or fastidiousness. [Obs.] Ah ha, my mistresses! which of you all Will now den…

ice propriety of manners or conduct; susceptibility or tenderness of feeling; refinement; fastidiousness; and hence, in an exaggerated sense, effeminacy; as, great delicacy of behavior; delicacy in doing a kindness; delicacy of character that unfits for earnest action. You know your mother's delicacy in this point. Cow…

Of exacting tastes and habits; dainty; fastidious.

esteem; to undervalue. Addison. Which . . . some over-severe phoilosophers may look upon fastidiously, or undervalue and depreciate. Cudworth. To prove that the Americans ought not to be free, we are obliged to depreciate the value of freedom itself. Burke.

paringly, or by prescribed rules; to regulate medicinally the food of. She diets him with fasting every day. Spenser.

One of a coterie who exclude others; one who from real of affected fastidiousness limits his acquaintance to a select few.

n. [L. exinanitio.] An emptying; an enfeebling; exhaustion; humiliation. [Obs.] Fastings to the exinanition of spirits. Jer. Taylor.

licate perception or close and accurate discrimination; not easy to satisfy; exact; nice; fastidious; as, exquisite judgment, taste, or discernment. His books of Oriental languages, wherein he was exquisite. Fuller.