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feaster|ˈfiːstə(r)|
[f. feast v. + -er1.]
†1. The giver of a feast, host, entertainer. Obs.
c1425Festivals Church 294 in Leg. Rood (1871) 220 Neuer festour fedde better. 1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Matt. xiv. 18 A feaster and a feader of the bodies. 1587Turberv. Trag. T. (1837) 40 The feaster prayde eche one to take his place. 1611Cotgr., Festivant, a feaster or feast maker.
2. One who is in the habit of feasting; a luxurious liver.
a1633Austin Medit. (1635) 84 Thou shalt have more Ioy..then the worldly Feasters have. a1661B. Holyday Juvenal 50 Implying, that the Romans once plain and thrifty were now become feasters. 1670Milton Hist. Eng. i. Wks. (1847) 482/2 Lud was hardy, and bold in war; in peace, a jolly feaster. 1725Pope Odyss. iii. 401 While lawless feasters in thy palace sway. 1806W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. IV. 231 The pampered feaster.
3. One who partakes of a feast; a guest.
1813Scott Rokeby iii. xiv, Among the feasters waited near, Sorrow. 1870Morris Earthly Par. III. iv. 187 What music on the feasters fell. |