xerophagus

xerophagus [cf. CL xerophagia], one who eats (only) dry food (esp. as form of abstinence or fast, also transf. w. ref. to ascetic life). historiographis ad scribendum uberius tema dant presulum litigia, et cruenta principum prelia, quam theologorum sintagmata, vel xerofagorum parsimonia sive prodigia Ord. Vit. V 1 p. 302; xerofagi, i. fructus tantum comedentes Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 629; a frute, fructus, xiros grece. a frute eter, xirofagus vel xirofaga CathA.

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