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▪ I. banquet, n.1|ˈbæŋkwɪt|
Forms: 5 bankat, 5–6 -ett(e, 6 bancket, -ette, -it, bancquet, -ett, 6–7 banket, 6– banquet.
[a. F. banquet (15th c. in Littré), dim. of banc bench, corresponding to It. banchetto, dim. of banco ‘table’; cf. table, board, in sense of ‘meals.’ The development of sense in It. has yet to be investigated: possibly sense 2, or 3, will prove to have preceded 1.]
1. A feast, a sumptuous entertainment of food and drink; now usually a ceremonial or state feast, followed by speeches.
1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 246/2 He there bayned and made bankettis in etyng and drynkyng. 1502Arnold Chron. (1811) Introd. 41 There the Kinge helde ryal iustis, turnais, and bankettis. 1555Fardle Facions i. iv. 48 In bancquettes of honour..they serue in rawe flesh very finely minced. 1604T. Wright Passions v. §2. 163 Depriue great bankets of musicke, and the feast is not intire. 1711Pope Temp. Fame 382 Ours is the place at banquets, balls and plays. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. iii, The halls of the great companies were enlivened by many sumptuous banquets. 1885Daily News 4 June 6/8 Last evening the Lord Mayor..gave a banquet to her Majesty's Judges.
b. transf. and fig.; sometimes ironical.
c1495Dunbar Twa Mariit Wom. 430 To furnyse a bancat [v.r. bankat] In Venus chalmer. 1542Elyot (title) The Bankette of Sapience. 1580Sidney Arcadia iii. 280 Had trayned out the Princesses to their banket of miserie. 1613R. C. Table Alph., Pittance, short banquet. 1791–1824D'Israeli Cur. Lit. (1866) 16 Thus a single point, by the hand of a skilful artist, may become a varied banquet.
c. Applied to the Eucharist or Lord's Supper.
1563Homilies ii. Sacram. ii. (1859) 449 O heavenly banquet, then so used. 1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. lxvii. §11 Christ assisting this heavenly banquet with his personal presence.
†2. A slight repast between meals. Sometimes called running banquet. (Often transf. and fig., as in prec. sense.) Obs.
1509Fisher Wks. i. 294 Eschewynge bankettes, rere⁓soupers, joncryes betwyxe meles. 1552Huloet, Banquet before supper, Antecœnium. 1613Shakes. Hen. VIII, iii. iv. 69 Besides the running Banquet of two Beadles [i.e. a whipping] that is to come. 1620Venner Via Recta v. 91 At banquets betweene meales, when the stomache is empty. 1657Jordan Walks Isling. Prol., A Play of Walks, or you may please to rank it, With that which Ladies love, A running Banquet.
3. A course of sweetmeats, fruit, and wine, served either as a separate entertainment, or as a continuation of the principal meal, but in the latter case usually in a different room; a dessert. Obs. in gen. use; but cf. ‘cake and wine banquet’ in Scotland, ‘fruit banquet’ in northern counties.
1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. cccciii, He gaue dyners, suppers, and banketes to ladyes and damosels. 1588Cogan Haven Health ccxii. (1612) 191 Yea, and after supper for feare lest they bee not full gorged, to haue a delicate banquet, with abundance of wine. 1610P. Barrough Physick iii. xxx. (1639) 151 Let his banket be Almonds. 1703Lond. Gaz. No. 3943/4 A Ball, which..ended in a very handsome Banquet of Sweetmeats.
†b. A sweetmeat, a dainty dish; collect. sweetmeats, dessert.
1534Ld. Berners Gold. Bk. M. Aurel (1546) D iiij, To inuent newe maner of meates and bankettes. 1681Lond. Gaz. No. 1623/4 Four Tables, covered with high Piramids of all sorts of Banquet. a1700Sedley Poems Wks. 1722 I. 36 Some with full Cups, with Banquets some attend.
†4. A wine-drinking carousal. Obs.
1535Coverdale 1 Macc. xvi. 15 Where he made them a bancket [Gr. πότον]. 1552Huloet, Banquet called a rere banquet or drynkynge, repotium. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 612 A banket, where they shall be put to quaffe and carrouse in their turne. 1719Young Busiris i. i. (1757) 19 The drunken banquet.
5. attrib., as in banquet-beagle, banquet-chamber, banquet-hall, etc.
1535Coverdale Eccles. vii. 2 It is better to go into a house of mournynge, then into a bancket house. 1599B. Jonson Ev. Man out of Hum. Dram. Pers., A good feast-hound, or banquet-beagle, that will scent you out a supper some three miles off. 1837Lytton E. Maltrav. v. viii, The lamps are dead in the banquet-room of yesterday. 1852Tupper Prov. Philos. 385 The grave, that dismal banquet-hall.
See also banquette.
▪ II. banquet, n.2 Horsemanship.
[a. F. banquet in same sense: see Littré.]
See quot.
1753Chambers Cycl. Supp. s.v., Banquet in the manege, denotes that small part of the branch of a bridle under the eye. Ibid. Banquet-line, an imaginary line drawn by the bit⁓makers along the banquet, in forging a bit.
▪ III. banquet, v.|ˈbæŋkwɪt|
Also 6–7 banket. pples. banqueted, -ing.
[a. F. banquete-r, f. banquet; see prec.]
1. trans. To entertain at a banquet or banquets; to provide a banquet for, to feast, regale.
c1538Lyndesay Sqr. Meldrum 854 They banketted him fra hand to hand. 1594Nashe Unfort. Trav. 32 Not a dogge..but shall bee banketted with Rhenish wine and sturgion. a1797H. Walpole Mem. Geo. II, I. 370 Being banqueted much on the road. c1840Lytton Devereux vi. ii, As an oak banqueteth the destroying worm.
fig.1676D'Urfey Mad. Fickle v. i. (1677) 52 Happy the Man that takes delight In Banquetting the Sences.
2. intr. To take part in a banquet or banquets; to regale oneself; to feast, carouse. Const. on.
1514Barclay Cyt. & Uplondyshm. 30 To Baccus they banket. 1573Tusser Husb. (1878) 68 At Christmas we banket, the rich with the poore. 1725Pope Odyss. x. 662 A vulgar soul Born but to banquet, and to drain the bowl. 1855Singleton Virgil I. 144 Ere that banquetted a godless race On butchered steers.
fig.1588Shakes. L.L.L. i. i. 25 The minde shall banquet, though the body pine. 1751Johnson Rambl. No. 162 ⁋11 Thrasybulus had banqueted on flattery. 1857Heavysege Saul (1869) 172 To banquet on the sounds.
†3. To take a banquet (in senses 2 and 3). Obs.
1564P. Moore Hope Health ii. ii. 22 Let them eschue..drinking or banquetting betwene meales. c1800Gifford in Southey Comm.-pl. Bk. Ser. ii. (1849) 323 The common place of banqueting, or of eating the dessert. |