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单词 feasting
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feastingn.

Brit. /ˈfiːstɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈfistɪŋ/
Forms: see feast v. and -ing suffix1.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: feast v., -ing suffix1.
Etymology: < feast v. + -ing suffix1.
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.
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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.

Brit. /ˈfiːstɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈfistɪŋ/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: feast v., -ing suffix2.
Etymology: < feast v. + -ing suffix2.
That feasts upon something; (figurative) that derives pleasure and delight, esp. from the sight of something.
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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).
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