单词 | festal |
释义 | festaladj.n. 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < adj.n.1479 |
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