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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



... down the pretty carriage-drive between young elms and flowering shrubs, where the bobolink had raised her brood, and the meadow lark had chanted his vesper hymn for us all through June. Many winged strangers came to feast on the treasures uncovered by the hay-cutter, and then the shy red-head showed himself on our grounds. To my surprise, he was searching the freshly cut stubble not at all like a woodpecker, but hobbling about most awkwardly, half flying, half hopping, seeking some delectable morsel, ...
— Little Brothers of the Air • Olive Thorne Miller
... them, trapped for them, hunted for them, and served them in a thousand ways. 'You are all the children of Onas!' they said. Nothing delighted the Indians more than to receive the great Onas as their guest. A feast was arranged in the depths of the forest, bucks were killed, cakes were cooked, and the whole tribe abandoned itself to festivity and rejoicing. And when, years afterwards, they heard that Onas was dead, they sent his widow a characteristic message of sympathy, accompanied ...
— A Handful of Stars - Texts That Have Moved Great Minds • Frank W. Boreham
... they came to fetch her, and I shall never forget the look she gave me over her shoulder whilst being led away. Then I comforted myself with the thought that when she came back after the fifth day, driving the ox for the marriage feast, she would not ...
— Kafir Stories - Seven Short Stories • William Charles Scully
... dining a rather important commission," the Doctor said; "it was in the paper. They are to have a war feast—three courses, no wine, ...
— The Tin Soldier • Temple Bailey
... time was short, Agnes and Matthew had drilled the story of the nativity well, and the children answered promptly. The service lasted three hours. Then each child received a small gift, and the whole company was treated royally with a feast that all remembered for ...
— Three Young Pioneers - A Story of the Early Settlement of Our Country • John Theodore Mueller


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