Word Finder - feast

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A very large meal, often of a ceremonial nature.

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We had a feast to celebrate the harvest.

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Something delightful

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It was a feast for the eyes.

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A festival; a holy day or holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary.

He'll attend you at the feast this evening.

The feast was held in the grandest room of the palace.

The feast is ready, but no one has come to partake of it.

We will feast on the morrow.

Three of the dogs ignored the feast, intent on her progress toward the barn.

Servants scurried to prepare it for the feast while Memon sat atop his throne, Sirian before him.

Rostov stood at that corner for a long time, watching the feast from a distance.

After the burial a funeral feast is held in the house of mourning.

It is the premium and the feast which tempt him.

Hosea even takes it for granted that in captivity the Sabbath will be suspended, like all the other feasts, because in his day a feast implied a sanctuary.

The hour for the feast came.

Hugh de Gurnay held a fair in Wendover on the eve, feast and morrow of St John the Baptist, granted him in 1 214.

Her gaze dropped to the feast before them.

We defeated the last of our enemies - -tonight is a feast in my honor, only none save my uncle and I know it was the beast who saved us all!

At Christmas time he scattered crumbs of bread under the trees, so that the tiny creatures could feast and be happy.

She was canonized in 1391 by Pope Boniface IX., and her feast is celebrated on the 9th of October.

I'll send them forward for the feast.

This word, he complains, should denote the heavenly food, the reasonable feast alone, and the Lord never used it of mere junketings.

Hikers traveling together may opt for one of the restaurant's group feast offers.

But everything pointed to the destruction of the city, which one Jesus had prophesied at the feast of tabernacles in 62.

He was crowned at Kingston by Archbishop Odo, and his troubles began at the coronation feast.

One day King Astyages planned to make a great feast for the lad.

While Korean Christmas dinner is not as lavish of an affair as it is in the U.S., many Koreans use it as an opportunity to feast and visit with family.

Coinciding with Brumalia was the Roman feast of Saturnalia, held on December 17.

These were given at a feast during the winter solstice.

Feast on a towering stack of buttermilk or buckwheat pancakes topped with hot blueberries, apples or strawberries.

Help yourself at the breakfast buffet, enjoy happy hour, and feast on the fresh local seafood along with steak, ribs, and chicken.

The feast must be important, and his attempt to request her attendance-- rather than demand it-- impressed her.

Another fair was granted to John de Molyns in1347-1348on the eve, feast and morrow of St Barnabas, but in 1464 Edward IV.

When he marched against Aretas, his army with their standards did not enter Judaea at all; but he himself went up to Jerusalem for the feast and, on receipt of the news that Tiberius was dead, administered to the Jews the oath of allegiance to Caligula.

In the same year it was decreed that the Jews should pay " a special tax of 40,000 florins for the right to import their citrons for the feast of booths."

The Feast of Holy Innocents became a regular festival of children, in which a boy, elected by his fellows of the choir school, functioned solemnly as bishop or archbishop, surrounded by the elder choir-boys as his clergy, while the canons and other clergy took the humbler seats.

Lucky locals and visitors alike can feast on fresh seafood dishes in every nearly restaurant, a perk of the town's waterfront setting.

Reverting to the origin and the meaning of the feast, modern criticism draws attention to the different nature of the two observances combined with the name Passover, the pastoral sacrifice of the paschal lamb and the agricultural observance of a seven days' abstention from unleavened bread.

Finally, the association of the first-born with the festival specially referred to in the texts, and carried out both in Samaritan tradition, which marks the forehead of the first-born with the blood of the lamb, and in Jewish custom, which obliged the first-born to fast on the day preceding Passover, also connects the idea of the feast with the sacro-sanctity of the first-born.

As before remarked, there seems no direct connexion between the paschal sacrifice and what appears to be essentially an agricultural festival; the Hebrew tradition, to some extent, dissociates them by making the sacrifice on the 14th of Nisan and beginning the Feast of Unleavened Bread on the 15th.

As regards the Feast of Unleavened Bread, now indissolubly connected with the paschal sacrifice, no satisfactory explanation has been given either of its original intention or of its connexion with the Passover.

The suggestion that the eating of cakes of unleavened bread, similar to the Australian "damper," was due to the exigencies of the harvest does not meet the case, since it does not explain the seven days and is incongruous with the fact that the first sheaf of the harvest was put to the sickle not earlier than the third day of the feast.

Fish, as is well known, devour them greedily, and enjoy a veritable feast during the short period in which any particular species appears.

He reached Sparta on the day on which Orestes was holding the funeral feast over Aegisthus and Clytaemnestra.

Verrall (Journal of Hellenic Studies, xx., 1900, p. 115) explains it as a feast of "revocation" (from avaO o-aaaOat, to "pray back" or "up"), at which the ghosts of the dead were recalled to the land of the living (cp. the Roman mundus patet).

By the charter of 1194 the burgesses received licence to hold a fair on the vigil, feast and morrow of the Annunciation, and this with the fair on St James's day was confirmed to them by Henry VII.

The earliest record of a grant of market rights is in 1219, when Roger la Zouch obtained a grant of a weekly market and a two days' fair at the feast of St Helen, in consideration of a fine of one palfrey.

The yearly fair in connexion with the feast of San Fermin (July 7), the patron saint of the city, attracts a large concourse from all parts of northern Spain.

In later times the psalms for the encaenia or feast of dedication embraced Ps.

The same thing is seen from the fact that the heresy of the Marcionites was already showing itself in this district, for (in Tixeront's words) " heresies, in the first centuries at feast, only spread in already constituted Christian communities."

The institution of the feast of All Saints is usually attributed to this pope.

Renewed freedom was celebrated by a colossal statue of Zeus Eleutherius and by a yearly feast in his honour.

Early meanings of the root gild or geld were expiation, penalty, sacrifice or worship, feast or banquet, and contribution or payment; it is difficult to determine which is the earliest meaning, and we are not certain whether the gildsmen were originally those who contributed to a common fund or those who worshipped or feasted together.

While in most towns the name and the old organization of the gild merchant thus disappeared and the institution was displaced by the aggregate of the crafts towards the close of the middle ages, in some places it survived long after the 15th century either as a religious fraternity, shorn of its old functions, or as a periodical feast, or as a vague term applied to the whole municipal corporation.