Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Unleavened bread, or a loaf of unleavened bread; especially, the bread eaten among the Jews at the time of the Passover, or that used in part of the Christian church for consecration in the eucharist: generally in the plural.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Unleavened bread.
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- noun Alternative form of
azyme (unleavened bread)
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This from airoel (airo), to raise, signifies a something elevated, lifted up, being raised and warmed by the ferment and salt; the azym, on the other hand, is lifeless as a stone or baked clay, fit only to symbolize affliction and suffering.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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