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Feast   /fist/   Listen
noun
Feast  n.  
1.
A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary. "The seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord." "Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover." Note: An Ecclesiastical feast is called a immovable feast when it always occurs on the same day of the year; otherwise it is called a movable feast. Easter is a notable movable feast.
2.
A festive or joyous meal; a grand, ceremonious, or sumptuous entertainment, of which many guests partake; a banquet characterized by tempting variety and abundance of food. "Enough is as good as a feast." "Belshazzar the King made a great feast to a thousand of his lords."
3.
That which is partaken of, or shared in, with delight; something highly agreeable; entertainment. "The feast of reason, and the flow of soul."
Feast day, a holiday; a day set as a solemn commemorative festival.
Synonyms: Entertainment; regale; banquet; treat; carousal; festivity; festival. Feast, Banquet, Festival, Carousal. A feast sets before us viands superior in quantity, variety, and abundance; a banquet is a luxurious feast; a festival is the joyful celebration by good cheer of some agreeable event. Carousal is unrestrained indulgence in frolic and drink.


verb
Feast  v. t.  
1.
To entertain with sumptuous provisions; to treat at the table bountifully; as, he was feasted by the king.
2.
To delight; to gratify; as, to feast the soul. "Feast your ears with the music a while."


Feast  v. i.  (past & past part. feasted; pres. part. feasting)  
1.
To eat sumptuously; to dine or sup on rich provisions, particularly in large companies, and on public festivals. "And his sons went and feasted in their houses."
2.
To be highly gratified or delighted. "With my love's picture then my eye doth feast."





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"Feast" Quotes from Famous Books



... to this feast of brotherly love lay in the fact that he could not obtain the tete-a-tete he so earnestly desired with Bobby Boynton. She was always with him, to be sure, but so was everybody else, especially Mrs. Weston, who had been officially appointed to stand ...
— The Honorable Percival • Alice Hegan Rice
... of our seniors grow quite pathetic over the abolition of those social, if unsalubrious, repasts. I wonder at such regrets no longer, if I cannot share them. There is surely an hilarious informality about these media-nochi that attaches to no antecedent feast; the freedom of a picnic, without its manifold inconveniences: as the witching hour draws nearer, the "brightest eyes that ever have shone" glitter yet more gloriously, till in their nearer and dearer ...
— Border and Bastille • George A. Lawrence
... he said to Ivanhoe, "at Coningsburgh, the castle of the deceased Athelstane, since there thy father Cedric holds the funeral feast for his noble relation. I would see your Saxon kindred together, Sir Wilfred, and become better acquainted with them than heretofore. Thou also wilt meet me; and it shall be my task to ...
— Ivanhoe - A Romance • Walter Scott
... with laughter at sight of Lapoulle's face, who swallowed everything and was licking his chops in anticipation of the feast. That funny dog, Loubet, he was the man to cure one of the dumps if anybody could! And when the fire began to crackle in the sunlight, and the kettle commenced to hum and bubble, they ranged themselves reverently ...
— The Downfall • Emile Zola
... brother owes my father's cousin something yet on his daughter's marriage-feast,' said the woman crisply. 'Let him put their food to that account. The yogi will ...
— Kim • Rudyard Kipling


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