单词 | feasting |
释义 | feastingn. The action of feast v. (in various senses); esp. participating in a feast, dining sumptuously. Also: an instance of this. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > festive occasion > [noun] > festivity feast?c1225 feastinga1325 jubilee1526 festivity1583 gala1716 festiveness1777 party spirit1816 trouble1884 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 society > faith > worship > [noun] worthingeOE bigengOE worshipOE knowledgingc1225 praising?c1225 holinessc1275 servicec1275 servingc1275 shrifta1300 anourc1330 worshippinga1333 devotion1340 blessing1382 the calves of our lipsc1384 gloryc1384 magnifyingc1384 worshipfulnessc1390 adoringc1405 divine service1415 adorationc1443 reverencingc1443 praise1447 culture1483 common servicea1500 venerationa1530 thanksgiving1533 cult1613 cultus1617 doxology1649 glorifying1748 feasting1840 a1325 (?c1300) Northern Passion (Cambr. Gg.1.1) l. 169 Of pask was her festinge. c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xi. l. 188 Ȝowre frendes wil..fonde ȝow to quite Ȝowre festynge and ȝowre faire ȝifte. c1430 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Cambr. Gg.4.27) (1882) iii. l. 1718 In suffisauns..Þis Troylus gan al his lyf to lede He spendyth iustyþ makyþ festyngys [a1413 Pierpont Morgan festeynynges]. a1538 T. Starkey Dial. Pole & Lupset (1989) 64 Forther was never so grete festyng & bankettyng. 1586 in W. A. Craigie Maitland Quarto MS (1920) ii. 56 Thay say wyffis ar sa delicat In feding feisting and bancat. 1665 T. Manley tr. H. Grotius De Rebus Belgicis 13 The Commons, whose whole study was Merchandizing and feasting. 1710 London Gaz. No. 4659/2 Publick Feastings have been made at Court twice every Week. 1776 J. Bryant Anal. Anc. Mythol. III. 133 They were giving themselves up to feasting and jollity. 1840 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece VII. lix. 339 Ptolemy celebrated his second deliverance..by sacrifices and feastings. 1890 A. C. Crocheron Children's Bk. 94 Across the street was a mansion brilliantly lighted, where dancing and feasting went on. 2014 N. Bubandt Empty Seashell vi. 143 Everyone in the village, including Sami and Herman, had taken part in the communal feasting. Compounds feasting house n. a building in which feasts are held; also figurative. ΚΠ 1563 2nd Tome Homelyes sig. Ooo.iv Come..and cherefully enter into gods feastyng house. 1652 R. Brome Joviall Crew ii. sig. F3v The Master of your Feast and feasting-House. 1995 F. Osofisan Esu & Vagabond Minstrels in Oriki of Grasshopper 40 A feasting house, that's what you promised us! Food in abundance! This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). feastingadj. That feasts upon something; (figurative) that derives pleasure and delight, esp. from the sight of something. ΚΠ 1567 T. Drant tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie sig. B.viv Shun the flyring feasting face which outwarde lookes so fayre. 1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet v. iii. 86 Her bewtie makes This Vault a feasting presence full of light. 1699 Poems on Affairs of State (ed. 3) 165 They're basking laid, As fine as young Birds..That o're the spacious Floor in wanton Pride are spread, Like Feasting God's luxurious. a1794 W. Jones Hymn to Indra in Wks. (1799) VI. 340 While from their diamond flagons The feasting Gods exhaustless nectar sip. 1895 W. H. Mallock Heart of Life III. iii. 41 He scanned each feasting group, which was dawdling over quails and cutlets. 1928 Hearst's Internat. Nov. 93/2 She reluctantly turned away with one last feasting look at the racks, but their image remained before her. 2012 J. Diamond World until Yesterday vii. 271 Few things impress me as more suicidal than the thought of walking up to a group of feasting lions while shaking a stick. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1325adj.1567 |
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