feastfuladj.
/ˈfiːs(t)f(ᵿ)l/, U.S. /ˈfis(t)f(ə)l/ Now rare.† 2. Sated with feasting; full of food and wine. Obsolete. rare.
1. Of or characterized by feasting; given to feasting; festive, joyful. Formerly also: †marked by religious celebration (obsolete).
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society > leisure > social event > festive occasion > [adjective]
festival1389
feastfulc1425
festual1462
festal1479
gaudious1570
full-mouthed1610
festive1613
genial1620
festivous1782
the world > food and drink > food > meal > feast > [adjective]
feastfulc1425
feast-famous1605
convival1658
convivial1669
epulary1678
feasten1838
society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > [adjective]
ghostlyOE
holyc1000
goodOE
solemnc1325
festival1389
festiala1422
feastfulc1425
festal1479
spiritual1491
the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > feasting > [adjective]
feastfulc1425
c1425 Bk. Found. St. Bartholomew's (1923) 35 Whan the goldyne path of the son reducid to vs the desirid ioyes of festfull celebrite.
1447 O. Bokenham Lives of Saints (Arun.) (1938) l. 4997 (MED) Up-on þat festful eue..Thre kyngys..to gloryfye Cryst.
c1475 Life St. Anne (Trin. Cambr.) (1928) l. 109 (MED) We halow and worshyp..Of seynt Anne..the festfull memory.
1596 A. Copley Fig for Fortune 80 To be sollemniz'd..in feastfull reference..to God for such his high defence.
1645 J. Milton Sonnet ix, in Poems 50 The Bridegroom with his feastfull friends Passes to bliss.
1725 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. i. 117 His herds and flocks in feastful rites devour.
1725 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. iv. 901 Rise, and to the feastful hall remove.
1849 J. Sterling in Fraser's Mag. 39 416 For this he bade to smile The feastful city with all joy's excesses.
1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. IV 346 So fell the noisy day to feastful night.
1948 Amer. Flint Nov. 53/2 I want to send my sincere greetings for a most feastful Thanksgiving Holiday.
1995 M. Ogundipe-Leslie in S. Chipasula & F. M. Chipasula Heinemann Bk. Afr. Women's Poetry 99 A feastful sight you see them now our people..come sit round together to dance the dance of children.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > feasting > [adjective] > having feasted
feastful1818
1818 M. Lamb Salome in C. Lamb Wks. I. 46 The feastful monarch's heart was fired.
Compounds
feastful day n. (originally) †a festival day, an annual religious holiday (obsolete); (later) a day of feasting.
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society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > [noun]
tidea900
holidayc950
massOE
holy-daya1000
mass-dayOE
high tideOE
holy-tidea1035
good tideOE
high dayOE
feastc1200
feast dayc1300
ferie1377
festival day1389
solemnity1390
solennityc1400
feastful day1440
festiala1450
festivala1500
sacre1542
panegyry1641
Magdalene-tide1649
church festival1661
surplice day1663
festa1800
festa day1835
fiesta1844
society > leisure > social event > festive occasion > [noun] > day or season of
high tideOE
high dayOE
feast dayc1300
ferie1377
festival day1389
feastful day1440
festivala1500
gaudy-day1567
carnival1598
utas1600
saturnal1605
Saturnalia1639
terminals1656
days of gala1716
fête dayc1759
mirth-day1778
season1791
festa1800
jour de fête1806
fiesta1844
fest1846
Winterval1982
1440 J. Capgrave Life St. Norbert (1977) l. 2723 So it happed on a festful day. He had be occupied in seruyse..With singing and preching.
1563 T. Becon Reliques of Rome (rev. ed.) f. 75v The feastful day of the Epiphanye.
1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 1741 The Virgins also shall on feastful days Visit his Tomb with flowers. View more context for this quotation
1790 Generous Cock 12 A Turkey, whom..His gen'rous care had help'd to raise To plenty, source of feastful days.
2017 B. Venkataraman Spiritual Sojourn No. 12 On this feast-full day After an sumptuous meal..I saw what life is!
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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