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Nave Topical Bible
• Total Abstinence
• Abstinence, Total
Thompson Chain Reference
• Total Abstinence
• Abstinence
Dictionaries
American Church Dictionary
• Abstinence
Baker's Evangelical Dictionary
• Abstain, Abstinence
Charles Buck Dictionary
• Abstinents
• Abstinence
Fausset Bible Dictionary
• Abstinence
Holman Bible Dictionary
• Abstinence
Hastings' NT Dictionary
• Abstinence
King James Dictionary
• Abstinence
1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Law of Abstinence
• Abstinence, Law of
Hawker's Poor Man's Dictionary
• Abstinence
Vines' Expository Dictionary
• Abstain, Abstinence
Webster Dictionary
• Abstinently
• Abstinent
• Abstinency
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Watson's Theological Dictionary
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1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Abstinence
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
• Abstinence
Kitto Biblical Cyclopedia
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McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Abstinence
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• Total Abstinence
The Catholic Encyclopedia
• Abstinence
• Physical Effects of Abstinence
The Jewish Encyclopedia
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The Church makes a distinction between abstinence and fasting. Abstinence is the reduction of food for the sake of self-discipline, while fasting is going without food of any kind as a more severe act of discipline. Abstinence is to be exercised on "Other Days of Fasting" i.e., other than Ash Wednesday and Good Friday which are absolute Fasts. (See FASTS, TABLE OF; also FASTING).