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单词 festal
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festaladj.n.

Brit. /ˈfɛstl/, U.S. /ˈfɛst(ə)l/
Forms: late Middle English–1500s festall, 1600s– festal.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French festal.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman festal of or relating to a feast day (first half of the 12th cent. as festel ) < feste feast n. + -al -al suffix1. Compare earlier festival adj.Compare post-classical Latin festalis (adjective) of or relating to a feast day (6th cent.), (noun; also festale, neuter) festival (from 12th cent. in British glossarial sources), and also Old Occitan festal.
A. adj.
1. Designating a day on which a festival (usually one celebrated by the church) occurs; of or relating to such a festival or day.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > social event > festive occasion > [adjective]
festival1389
feastfulc1425
festual1462
festal1479
gaudious1570
full-mouthed1610
festive1613
genial1620
festivous1782
society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > [adjective]
ghostlyOE
holyc1000
goodOE
solemnc1325
festival1389
festiala1422
feastfulc1425
festal1479
spiritual1491
1479 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 414 The festall daie of Seynt Mighell Tharchangell.
1661 N. Eaton Holy Cal. 19 Though Rhea Syluia have her Festal day, And Romulus his Quirinalia.
1740 W. Somervile Hobbinol ii. 27 Blind British Bards..on festal Days Shall chant this mournful Tale.
1787 S. Coleridge Let. 12 May (1956) I. 3 Hail! festal Easter, that dost bring Approach of sweetly smiling spring.
1838 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece (new ed.) II. xi. 67 She presented herself in her festal dress.
1847 T. De Quincey Spanish Mil. Nun (1853) viii. 16 A place..radiant with festal pleasures.
1926 E. R. Eddison Worm Ouroboros (1971) ii. 13 Smile, Fates, on this festal day!
1982 A. N. Wilson Wise Virgin x. 176 Mrs Agar's unalterable festal routines..Midnight Mass..present-opening..dinner with Tom and Ethel.
2019 South Wales Echo (Nexis) 20 Apr. 28 Enjoy Festal Evensong at St Mary's Church, Whitchurch, at 6pm tomorrow, Easter Day.
2.
a. Characteristic of a feast; (hence also) joyous or celebratory in tone; (of a person or group) in a festive or holiday mood.
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the mind > emotion > pleasure > merriment > [adjective]
blitheOE
merryOE
golikc1175
lustya1225
playfulc1225
jollyc1305
merrya1350
jocund?c1380
galliardc1386
in (also on) a (merry, etc.) pinc1395
mirthfula1400
baudec1400
gayc1400
jovy1426
jocantc1440
crank1499
envoisiesa1500
as merry as a cricket1509
pleasant1530
frolic?1548
jolious1575
gleeful1586
buxom1590
gleesome1590
festival1592
laughter-loving1592
disposed1593
jucund1596
heartsomec1600
jovial1607
jovialist1610
laughsome1612
jocundary1618
gaysome1633
chirpinga1637
jovialissime1652
airy1654
festivous1654
hilarous1659
spleneticala1661
cocket1671
cranny1673
high1695
vogie1715
raffing?1719
festal1724
as merry (or lively) as a grig1728
hearty1755
tittuping1772
festive1774
fun-loving1776
mirthsome1787
Falstaffian1809
cranky1811
laughful1825
as lively as a cricket1832
hurrah1835
hilarious1838
Bacchic1865
laughterful1874
griggish1879
banzai1929
slap-you-on-the-back1932
society > leisure > social event > festive occasion > [adjective] > befitting
festyfull?a1425
high day1600
festivous1654
festal1724
carnivalesque1791
bank holiday1885
holidayish1886
bank-holidayish1894
gala1954
society > leisure > social event > festive occasion > [adjective] > festive (of person)
feastlyc1405
festive1744
festal1863
1724 G. Sewell tr. Ovid Metamorphoses (ed. 2) I. vi. 174 The nuptial day, and days of Itys' birth, They consecrate to joy and festal mirth.
1750 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 8 Jan. (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1483 No warmth of festal mirth.
1834 T. De Quincey Sketches Life & Manners in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 90/1 The ball-room..wore an elegant and festal air.
1850 R. W. Emerson Shakspeare in Representative Men v. 213 He touches nothing that does not borrow health and longevity from his festal style.
1863 N. Hawthorne Our Old Home II. 100 The aspect of Greenwich Park, with all those festal people wandering through it.
1947 E. Sutton tr. A. Zweig Axe of Wandsbek xv. 174 Salvos of guns, squadrons of plunging aeroplanes, and a storm of cheering from the crowd, greeted the Fuhrer..today a wholly festal crowd.
2014 C. Zaleski in F. A. Murphy Beauty of God’s House xv. 255 Not all observers were ready to chime in with this festal mood.
b. Of a place: used for or characterized by feasting or festivity.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > social event > festive occasion > [adjective] > festive (of place or season)
festive1640
festal1783
1783 F. G. Waldron Contin. in B. Jonson's Sad Shepherd v. 104 Unto my namesake, Robin of the wood, And his fair Marian (not more fair than good) Peaceful possession of their festal bower!
1798 W. Sotheby tr. C. M. Wieland Oberon i. xxix. 15 At Bourdeaux' festal town.
1963 P. Hort tr. B. Tamm Auditorium & Palatium vii. 130 The large festal hall where the master of the house held banquets.
1991 T. Mitchell Blood Sport ii. 56 That the rise of bullfighting on foot was a kind of ‘reconquest’ of the festal territory of urban plazas or a restoration of popular techniques of manhandling bulls.
B. n.
A celebratory rite, a festivity. Now rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > social event > festive occasion > [noun]
festivityc1410
rejoicingc1475
festivala1500
gaudy1535
show of misrule1555
gaudc1571
wake1577
festal1581
jubilee1589
gaudy-nighta1616
gala night1762
bridewain1789
gala1800
bean-feast1805
holinighta1821
let-off1827
glorification1843
pesta1964
1581 A. Hall tr. Homer 10 Bks. Iliades vi. 710 It happened that Licurgus there the women did aduise To doe to Bacchus seruice due, his festalls [Fr. festes] when they were With slippes of Uine their heads vpon.
1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna v. lvi. 126 Gore Or poison none this festal did pollute.
1871 B. Taylor tr. J. W. von Goethe Faust II. ii. iii. 175 Off to the cheerful festals of the Sea!
1946 Tel.-Herald (Dubuque, Iowa) 6 Jan. 4/2 The Arcadian observance grew into the licentious ‘Lupercalia’ marked by gladiatorial spectacles and festals.

Compounds

With present participles, forming adjectives in which festal expresses the complement of the underlying verb, as festal-looking, festal-sounding, etc.
ΚΠ
1746 W. Collins Odes 50 Amidst the festal sounding Shades.
1870 Galaxy 9 242 Very scanty costume; but that was mostly white, and little touches of color here and there made it quite festal-looking.
1995 F. Stubbings Bedders, Bulldogs & Bedells (2001) 55 The lower-ranking degree of Doctor of Philosophy has the least festal-looking [gown].

Derivatives

ˈfestally adv. in a festal manner, as befits a church festival; (also) festively.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > social event > festive occasion > [adverb]
festivally?c1400
festively1793
festally1820
1820 J. Black tr. J. I. von Gerning Picturesque Tour along Rhine 71 On St. Bartholomew's-day, every year,..his grave was festally strewed with flowers.
1883 R. L. Stevenson Silverado Squatters 9 The chapel bell..sounded most festally that sunny Sunday.
1919 Constructive Q. Mar. 118 Overshadowing all was the conception of the eucharist as a festal banquet, a banquet so festally conceived that it could degenerate into a drunken riot.
2018 @LiturgicalArtsJ 27 Mar. in twitter.com (assessed 23 July 2019) With Holy Week upon us..we will move into a period of the liturgical year which will see churches festally decorated with floral arrangements.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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