feast
IPA: fˈist
noun
- A very large meal, often of a ceremonial nature.
- Something delightful
- A festival; a holy day or holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary.
- A surname from Middle English.
verb
- (intransitive) To partake in a feast, or large meal.
- (intransitive) To dwell upon (something) with delight.
- (transitive) To hold a feast in honor of (someone).
- (transitive, obsolete) To serve as a feast for; to feed sumptuously.
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Examples of "feast" in Sentences
- The lady of the manor gave feasts.
- It was a time of feasting and merriment.
- The medley created is a feast for the ears.
- On Sundays and feast days, the symbol is used.
- At the wedding feast, the people praise the bridegroom.
- On the eve of the feast, the Divine Liturgy is celebrated.
- His feast day is on the anniversary of his birthday on May 7.
- His feast day is on the anniversary of his repose on May 7th.
- Praise the bounty of the harvest laid in feast before us here.
- The day of a feast is a day of slaughter, or sacrifice, Jam.v. 5.
- The prince insists on inviting the Master Maid to the wedding feast.
- "This is what I call the feast and flow," said Mr Pitskiver; while Mr
- During the wedding feast, the princess played the violin on the shore.
- Opee-Kwan rose to his feet "And now, O Nam-Bok, the feast is ended, and we would listen concerning the strange things you have seen."
- The guests are met, the feast is set: may'st hear the merry din - and the celebrated performance of the stage adaptation of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner began.
- From the Holy Father's June 6, 2007, General Audience on St. Cyprian, "the first Bishop in Africa to obtain the crown of martyrdom", whose feast is celebrated today:
- She dined publicly in state; a procession of the municipal magistrates presented her a sample of the wines of the district; and, as she tasted the luscious offering, the coopers celebrated what they called a feast of Bacchus, waving their hoops as they danced round the room in grotesque figures.
- Spirit of God, in holy eucharistical ordinances, are the marriage-feast; and the whole collective body of all those who partake of this feast is the bride, the Lamb's wife; they eat into one body, and drink into one Spirit, and are not mere spectators or guests, but coalesce into the espoused party, the mystical body of Christ.
- But if we take notice how Christ was received into Jerusalem five days before the Passover, with those very rites and solemnities that were used at the feast of Tabernacles, viz. "with branches of palms," &c. chapter 12: 13, these words may seem to relate to that time; and so the word feast might not denote the individual feast that was now instant, but the kind of feast, or festival-time.
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