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Annunciator :: Annunciator (n.) One who announces. Specifically: An officer in the church of Constantinople, whose business it was to inform the people of the festivals to be celebrated..

Octaemeron :: Octaemeron (n.) A fast of eight days before a great festival.

Assumption :: Assumption (n.) A festival in honor of the ascent of the Virgin Mary into heaven.

Gaud :: Gaud (n.) To sport or keep festival.

Holyday :: Holyday (n.) A religious festival.

Beltane :: Beltane (n.) A festival of the heathen Celts on the first day of May, in the observance of which great bonfires were kindled. It still exists in a modified form in some parts of Scotland and Ireland..

Almanac :: Almanac (n.) A book or table, containing a calendar of days, and months, to which astronomical data and various statistics are often added, such as the times of the rising and setting of the sun and moon, eclipses, hours of full tide, stated festivals of churches, terms of courts, etc..

Sequence :: Sequence (n.) A hymn introduced in the Mass on certain festival days, and recited or sung immediately before the gospel, and after the gradual or introit, whence the name..

Amphidromical :: Amphidromical (a.) Pertaining to an Attic festival at the naming of a child; -- so called because the friends of the parents carried the child around the hearth and then named it.

Visitation :: Visitation (n.) A festival in honor of the visit of the Virgin Mary to Elisabeth, mother of John the Baptist, celebrated on the second of July..

Tawdry :: Tawdry (superl.) Bought at the festival of St. Audrey.

Pentecost :: Pentecost (n.) A festival of the Roman Catholic and other churches in commemoration of the descent of the Holy Spirit on the apostles; which occurred on the day of Pentecost; -- called also Whitsunday.

Gaudy :: Gaudy (n.) A feast or festival; -- called also gaud-day and gaudy day.

Paas :: Paas (n.) The Easter festival.

Festivity :: Festivity (n.) A festival; a festive celebration.

Epiphany :: Epiphany (n.) A church festival celebrated on the 6th of January, the twelfth day after Christmas, in commemoration of the visit of the Magi of the East to Bethlehem, to see and worship the child Jesus; or, as others maintain, to commemorate the appearance of the star to the Magi, symbolizing the manifestation of Christ to the Gentles; Twelfthtide..

Saturnalia :: Saturnalia (n. pl.) The festival of Saturn, celebrated in December, originally during one day, but afterward during seven days, as a period of unrestrained license and merriment for all classes, extending even to the slaves..

Bacchanal :: Bacchanal (a.) Relating to Bacchus or his festival.

Bartholomew Tide :: Bartholomew tide () Time of the festival of St. Bartholomew, August 24th..

Bacchanal :: Bacchanal (n.) The festival of Bacchus; the bacchanalia.

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