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ˈbanqueting, vbl. n.
[f. as prec. + -ing1.]
1. Giving of banquets (obs.); indulgence in luxurious entertainment, feasting, carousal.
1535Coverdale Job i. 5 When they had passed ouer the tyme of their banckettinge rounde aboute. 1582N. T. (Rhem.) 1 Pet. iv. 3 Excesse of wine, banketings, potations. 1611ibid., Excesse of wine, reuellings, banquettings [Gr. πότοις]. 1801Southey Thalaba ix. xxxi, I have seen the Gouls Fight for the dainty at their banqueting.
2. attrib.
a. in general sense.
1563Homilies ii. viii. ii. (1859) 350 This feast is now prepared in God's banqueting-house, the church. 1570–87Holinshed Scot. Chron. I. 365 Such banketting cheare as was used amongst his people. 1656Cowley Davideis iii. (1669) 112 Citron..was most used for banquetting Beds and Tables. 1814Scott Wav. xx, Ere Waverley entered the banqueting hall. 1852Grote Greece ii. lxxvii. X. 117 Phyllidas now conducted the pretended women into the banqueting-room.
†b. in reference to banquet v. 3, n. 2, 3. Obs.
1586Cogan Haven Health cxv. (1636) 116 To preserve Berberries whole, for a banquetting dish. 1610P. Barrough Physick iii. vii. (1639) 109 Let their banketting meetes be Pistacium, Almonds. c1645Howell Lett. i. v. ix, Philosophy should be your substantial food, Poetry your banqueting-stuff. a1699A. Halkett Autobiog. (1875) 12, I must come out by the Banketting howse in the garden. |