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Break bread

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Verb
  1. 1
    To eat a meal, especially to eat a shared meal with friends, family, guests, etc.; to commune with others by eating with them.

    "And upon the first day of the week, when the disciples came together to break bread, Paul preached unto them, ready to depart on the morrow; and continued his speech until midnight."

  2. 2
    have a meal, usually with company wordnet
  3. 3
    To take part in Holy Communion.

    "In baptism we make covenant; in communion we renew covenant week by week. . . . After offering prayers of thanksgiving, together we break bread and drink from the cup."

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English breken bred; under medieval conditions, guests brought their own knives worn with them, which were their daggers they hunted and gathered with, then only fit to cut meat. From the expression “break bread with friends” the ellipsis “break bread” implying community developed.

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