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† comessation Obs.
Also 4 commessacioun, 5 comessacoun, 6 commessacyon, 6–7 commessation.
[a. OF. comessacion (13th c.), ad. L. comessātiōn-em, a Bacchanalian revel and procession, a carouse, f. cōmessārī, better cōmissā-rī, held to be ad. Gr. κωµάζ-ειν to hold a revel, f. κῶµος revel. In L. the word was early associated with comedĕre (comēsum, -essum) to eat up, and hence it was often coupled with ebrietas, drunkenness.]
1. Feasting, banqueting, ‘riotous eating’ (Blount).
c1380Wyclif Serm. Sel. Wks. II. 224 Sich ofte etingis of men ben clepid commessaciouns. c1400Apol. Loll. xxvi. 93 Kalendis of Janiuer, in wilk sum seyingis, & comessacouns, & ȝeftis, are ȝeuyn. 1544Suppl. Hen. VIII in Four Supplic. 53 What commessacyon, dronckenes, etc. 1582N. T. (Rhem.) Gal. v. 21 Fornication..envies, murders, ebrieties, commessations [Wyclif, unmesurable etyngis; Tindale, glottony; 1611 revellings]. 1642T. Taylor God's Judgem. 103 In all his day-riots or nights commessations.
2. Eating together.
c1645Howell Lett. (1650) II. 24 Ther could be no true frendship without commessation of a bushell of salt. 1686tr. Bouhours' St. Ignatius ii. 117 The Agapes, or Commessations of the Primitive Christians. |