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单词 comessation
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comessationn.

Brit. /kɒmᵻˈseɪʃn/, U.S. /ˌkɑməˈseɪʃ(ə)n/
Forms: late Middle English comessacoun, late Middle English comessacyoun, late Middle English commessacion, late Middle English commessacioun, 1500s commessacyon, 1500s–1700s 1900s– comessation, 1500s–1700s 1900s– commessation.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French comessacion; Latin cōmissātiōn-, cōmissātiō.
Etymology: < (i) Middle French comessacion feasting (a1380; French comessation ), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin cōmissātiōn-, cōmissātiō (also cōmessātiō, commissātiō) carousing, feasting, revelry < cōmissāt- , past participial stem of cōmissārī (also cōmessārī ) to revel, carouse, make merry ( < ancient Greek κωμάζειν to revel, make merry ( < κῶμος revel (see comedy n.1) + -άζειν , suffix forming verbs from nouns or adjectives), with alteration of the suffix after Latin verbs in -issāre from Greek verbs in -ίζειν -ize suffix) + -iō -ion suffix1. In Latin the word was early associated with comedere (past participial stem comēs- , comess- ) to eat up (see comestible adj.), and hence it was often coupled with ēbrietās ebriety n.In sense 2 perhaps influenced by classical Latin com- com- prefix.
1. Feasting, banqueting; indulgent or uproarious eating. Also: an instance of this; a feast, a banquet. Now historical and somewhat rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > feasting > [noun]
womb-joyc1300
feastinga1325
messing1340
comessationa1425
cheeringc1443
mangerya1470
epulation1542
junketing1555
coshering1577
coshery1582
collationing1652
potlatching1865
tuck-in1886
a1425 (a1400) Northern Pauline Epist. (1916) Gal. v. 21 Þe dedys of þe flesch..dronkenessys, commessacions [L. comessationes].
c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 93 Kalendis of Janiuer, in wilk sum seyingis, and comessacouns, and ȝeftis, are ȝeuyn.
1544 R. Tracy Supplycacion to Kynge Henry VIII sig. Dijv What commessacyon, dronckenes, detestable swearinge.
1582 Bible (Rheims) Gal. v. 21 Fornication..envies, murders, ebrieties, commessations [a1425 Wycliffite, L.V. vnmesurable etyngis; 1526 Tyndale glottony; 1611 revellings; L. comesationes].
1612 J. Boys Autumne Part 155 If we consider our selues as schollers..we should..forbad all excessiue riot and inordinate commessation in the towne.
1642 Taylor's 2nd Pt. Theatre Gods Iudgments vii. 103 His body was never surcharged neither in all his day-riots or nights commessations.
1752 J. Bilstone & E. R. Mores Preparing for Press (new ed.) Of the Manners of the Mallardians. Of their Comessations, Compotations, Ingurgitations, and other enormities.
1796 J. Gutch Wood's Hist. & Antiq. Univ. Oxf. II. i. 291 No determining Bachelaur should use any Commessations or Compotations (by which Students did commonly contract to themselves debauchery) to obtain the office of Collector.
1900 H. Buxon Our Remarkable Fledger ix. 114 It was munch, crunch, clobber, guzzle, globber..until their delicate comessation was finished.
1926 S. Putnam tr. P. La Croix Hist. Prostitution I. xxii. 439 The long nocturnal hours of the commessation.
2001 Renaissance Q. 54 266 Depictions of sacred and profane comessation in sixteenth-century art.
2. The action of eating together; (also) a shared meal. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating in specific conditions > [noun] > eating in company
commensality1611
comessation1647
commensationa1682
mess1778
messing1803
syssitia1846
1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 48 There could be no true frendship without commessation of a bushell of salt.
1686 tr. D. Bouhours Life St. Ignatius ii. 117 Little Repasts, which might breed a kindness and familiarity among them, conformably to the Agapes, or Commessations of the Primitive Christians.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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