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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



... members in the winter evenings. There was always a supper, but the rule was absolute that there should be only one hot dish served, a regulation which the ladies endeavored to evade when the turn of their husbands arrived to supply the feast. Among the later members were Professor Anderson, John A. Stevens, Mr. Gallatin's countryman De Rham, John Wells, Samuel Ward, Gulian C. Verplanck, and Charles King. No literary symposium in America was ever more delightful, more instructive, ...
— Albert Gallatin - American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII • John Austin Stevens
... late that night when the Major went to bed. The feast in Randy's honor had lasted until ten. There had been the shine of candles, and the laughter of the women, the old Judge's genial humor. Through the windows had come the fragrance of honeysuckle and of ...
— The Trumpeter Swan • Temple Bailey
... established in Manila, whence occasionally the employees went up to the mines, situated near the Caraballo Mountain, as if they were going to a picnic. When they arrived there, all denoted activity—for the feast; but the mining work they did was quite insignificant compared with the squandered funds, hence the disaster ...
— The Philippine Islands • John Foreman
... of the house. It would have been impossible to believe that but twenty-four hours ago, Christmas hymns had been shouted, and Christmas presents presented, had not a group of "Wran-boys" offered irrefutable testimony that this was indeed the Feast of Stephen. These, a ragged and tawdry little cluster of mummers, shabby survivors of mediaeval mysteries, were gathered round their ensign holly-bush in front of the hall-door steps. From the holly-bush swung the corpse of the ...
— Mount Music • E. Oe. Somerville and Martin Ross
... such is the case this very day. Feast of the Assumption, 1855:—What sad events, however, were destined to pass exactly before the very door of my tent! Who could have told me on that Easter Sunday, that the unknown hill which I had chosen for my rest, would soon be called the Massacre Hill! That next ...
— The Eureka Stockade • Carboni Raffaello


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