fasting (adj.) Copy link Outline 1. jējūnus2. impransus, i. e., without having taken breakfast • fasting (adj.): 1. jējūnus: f. and tired bodies, j. et fessa corpora, Liv.: a f. stomach, j. stomachus, Hor.: I had been f., j. fueram, Cic. 2. impransus, i. e., without having taken breakfast: here f. (before you have broken fast) study with me, hic mecum impr. disquirite, Hor. S. 2, 2, 7: upbraided by the voice of the f. teacher, impr. voce correptus magistri, Hor. S. 2, 3, 257. In both these cases the word means temperately fed, rather than strictly fasting.