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daily bread

noun
/ˈdeɪli ˌbɹɛd/US

Etymology

Possibly a reference to the Lord's Prayer in the Bible, part of which reads in the King James Version: “Give us this day our daily bread” (see Matthew 6:11, and compare Luke 11:3).

Definitions

  1. All those things, such as regular food and water, needed to sustain physical life.

    • to earn one's daily bread
    • [Verse] 11. Panem noſtrum ſuperſubſtātialem da nobis hodie. Giue vs this day our daily bread.
    • So do by your dignity and eſtate: As you muſt ask but your Daily bread, ſo muſt you deſire no more: Neither poverty, nor riches, but convenient food: yet ſo as to learn to abound and to want, and in every ſtate to be content: […]

  2. All those things, such as regular prayer, worship and meditation, needed to sustain…

    All those things, such as regular prayer, worship and meditation, needed to sustain spiritual life.

    • I thynke it mete / that euery Chriſten man not only knowe it [the Epistle to the Romans] by rote and with oute the boke / but alſo exerciſe him ſelfe therin euermore continually / as with the dayly brede of the ſoule.

The neighborhood

Derived

daily breader

Vish — recursive loop

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA