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Daily bread

//ˈdeɪli ˌbɹɛd// noun

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

    "to earn one's daily bread"

  2. 2
    All those things, such as regular food and water, needed to sustain physical life. wordnet
  3. 3
    All those things, such as regular prayer, worship and meditation, needed to sustain spiritual life. broadly, uncountable

    "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."

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).

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