To break bread. To partake of food. Common in Scripture language. Breaking of bread. The Eucharist.
“They continued … in breaking of bread, and in prayers.”—Acts ii. 42; and again verse 46.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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