feast

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  Egyptian Feast
• WordNet 3.6
  • v feast gratify "feed one's eyes on a gorgeous view"
  • v feast partake in a feast or banquet
  • v feast provide a feast or banquet for
  • n feast something experienced with great delight "a feast for the eyes"
  • n feast an elaborate party (often outdoors)
  • n feast a meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed "a banquet for the graduating seniors","the Thanksgiving feast","they put out quite a spread"
  • n feast a ceremonial dinner party for many people
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Enough is as good as a Feast

THE FEAST OF INARI SAMA

Strawberry Feast

THE FEAST OF THE DWARFS

• Interesting fact: Roman emperors ate flamingo tongues which were considered a delicacy. Also parrotfish livers, and pheasant brains were feasted on
• • Feast 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."
  • Feast 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."
  • Feast That which is partaken of, or shared in, with delight; something highly agreeable; entertainment. "The feast of reason, and the flow of soul."
  • Feast To be highly gratified or delighted. "With my love's picture then my eye doth feast ."
  • Feast To delight; to gratify; as, to feast the soul. "Feast your ears with the music a while."
  • Feast 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."
  • Feast To entertain with sumptuous provisions; to treat at the table bountifully; as, he was feasted by the king.
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• Interesting fact: In 1659, the General Court of Massachusetts ordered that anybody caught feasting or laying off from work, or in any other way goofing off on any other day other than Christmas, would be fined five shillings for each such offense.
• • n feast A festival in commemoration of some event, or in honor of some distinguished person; a set time of festivity and rejoicing: opposed to fast. In this sense the word is almost entirely confined to ecclesiastical feasts. In the Jewish church the most important feasts, apart from the sabbath, were those of the Atonement, the Passover, Tabernacles, and Pentecost. To these were subsequently added the feasts of Purim and the Dedication. In the Christian church Christmas and Easter are feasts of almost universal recognition and observance. To these many others have been added, celebrating events in the life of Christ or in the lives of the apostles, saints, and martyrs. Feasts are divided into movable and immovable, according as they occur on a specific day of the week succeeding a certain day of the month or phase of the moon, or at a fixed date. Easter is a movable feast, upon which all other movable feasts depend; Christmas is an immovable feast. In the Roman Catholic Church feasts are further divided into obligatory, and nonobligatory, and again into doubles, semi-doubles, simples, etc., according to the religious offices required to be recited in the church service.
  • n feast A sumptuous entertainment or repast of which a number of guests partake; particularly, a rich or splendid public entertainment.
  • n feast Any rich, delicious, or abundant repast or meal; hence, something delicious or highly agreeable, or in which some delectable quality abounds.
  • n feast Synonyms Feast, Banquet, Festival. The idea of a social meal of unusual richness or abundance, for the purposes of pleasure, may be common to these words. Feast is generic; specifically, it differs from banquet in the fact that at a feast the food is abundant and choice, while at a banquet there is richness or expensiveness, and especially pomp or ceremony. The essential characteristic of a festival is concurrence in the manifestation of joy, the joyous celebration of some event, feasting being a frequent but not necessary part: as, to hold high festival. See carousal.
  • feast To make a feast; have a feast; eat sumptuously or abundantly.
  • feast Figuratively, to dwell with gratification or delight: as, to feast on a poem or a picture.
  • feast To provide with a feast; entertain with sumptuous fare.
  • feast To delight; pamper; gratify luxuriously: as, to feast the soul.
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• Interesting fact: Mayonnaise is said to be the invention of the French chef of the Duke de Richelieu in 1756. While the Duke was defeating the British at Port Mahon, his chef was creating a victory feast that included a sauce made of cream and eggs. When the chef realized that there was no cream in the kitchen, he improvised, substituting olive oil for the cream. A new culinary masterpiece was born, and the chef named it "Mahonnaise" in honor of the Duke's victory.
• • n Feast fēst a day of unusual solemnity or joy: a festival in commemoration of some event—movable, such as occurs on a specific day of the week succeeding a certain day of the month, as Easter; immovable, at a fixed date, as Christmas: a rich and abundant repast: rich enjoyment for the mind or heart
  • v.i Feast to hold a feast: to eat sumptuously: to receive intense delight
  • v.t Feast to entertain sumptuously
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• Ernest Hemingway

  

  “If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.”
• Francis Bacon

  

  “A good conscience is a continual feast.”
• Samuel Pepys

  

  “Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.”
• George Herheri

  

  “A civil guest will no more talk all, than eat all the feast.”
• Harry A. Overstreet

  

  “Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life, than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith.”
• George Santayana

  

  “Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.”

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