Definition of feast

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Feast (n.) A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary..

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Festeye :: Festeye (v. t.) To feast; to entertain.
Pascha :: Pascha (n.) The passover; the feast of Easter.
Feast :: Feast (n.) A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary..
Epulation :: Epulation (n.) A feasting or feast; banquet.
Feast :: Feast (n.) To be highly gratified or delighted.
Pentecost :: Pentecost (n.) A solemn festival of the Jews; -- so called because celebrated on the fiftieth day (seven weeks) after the second day of the Passover (which fell on the sixteenth of the Jewish month Nisan); -- hence called, also, the Feast of Weeks. At this festival an offering of the first fruits of the harvest was made. By the Jews it was generally regarded as commemorative of the gift of the law on the fiftieth day after the departure from Egypt..
Carnival :: Carnival (n.) Any merrymaking, feasting, or masquerading, especially when overstepping the bounds of decorum; a time of riotous excess..
Halmas :: Halmas (a.) The feast of All Saints; Hallowmas.
Candlemas :: Candlemas (n.) The second day of February, on which is celebrated the feast of the Purification of the Virgin Mary; -- so called because the candles for the altar or other sacred uses are blessed on that day..
Glee :: Glee (n.) Joy; merriment; mirth; gayety; paricularly, the mirth enjoyed at a feast..
Junket :: Junket (v. i.) To feast; to banquet; to make an entertainment; -- sometimes applied opprobriously to feasting by public officers at the public cost.
Symposium :: Symposium (n.) A drinking together; a merry feast.
Cross-days :: Cross-days (n. pl.) The three days preceding the Feast of the Ascension.
Seneschal :: Seneschal (n.) An officer in the houses of princes and dignitaries, in the Middle Ages, who had the superintendence of feasts and domestic ceremonies; a steward. Sometimes the seneschal had the dispensing of justice, and was given high military commands..
Banquet :: Banquet (n.) A feast; a sumptuous entertainment of eating and drinking; often, a complimentary or ceremonious feast, followed by speeches..
Purim :: Purim (n.) A Jewish festival, called also the Feast of Lots, instituted to commemorate the deliverance of the Jews from the machinations of Haman..
Banquet :: Banquet (v. i.) To regale one's self with good eating and drinking; to feast.
Feast :: Feast (v. t.) To entertain with sumptuous provisions; to treat at the table bountifully; as, he was feasted by the king..
Feaster :: Feaster (n.) One who fares deliciously.
Gaudy :: Gaudy (n.) A feast or festival; -- called also gaud-day and gaudy day.
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