| 单词 | to make feast |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto make feast Phrases P1. to make feast. [Compare Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French faire feste (early 12th cent.; French faire fête).] a. To make merry, rejoice; (in later use spec.) to dine sumptuously, feast. Now archaic, poetic, and rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > a merrymaking or convivial occasion > merrymaking or conviviality > make merry [verb (intransitive)] to make feast?c1225 to make merryc1330 merrymakec1395 to have a good (bad, etc.) time (of it, formerly on it)1509 to make pleasant1530 gaud1532 to play the goodfellow1563 company1591 junket1607 rage1979 the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > feasting > feast [verb (intransitive)] to make good (glad, merry etc.) cheerc1330 festya1382 feastc1400 junket1607 convive1609 obligure1623 to make a feast of (also upon)1624 regale1678 smouse1775 to make feast1868 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 165 [He] bringen hire on to..alast make feste. a1325 St. Juliana (Corpus Cambr.) l. 33 in C. D'Evelyn & A. J. Mill S. Eng. Legendary (1956) 63 Togadere come hy made gret feste. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xix. 730 The scottis folk..maid fest and far, And blew hornys and fyres maid. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) vii. 16 My hert is not very joyfull to synge nor to make fest. 1868 W. Morris Earthly Paradise ii. 381 Come, sisters, sit, and let us make good feast! 1906 C. M. Doughty Dawn in Brit. III. xi 178 Caradoc, there, waits king Idhig, seven days; Who.., each eve, for Cunobelin's son, makes feast. 1933 R. T. Knott Morro Misc. 10 Linnets, score on blood-throated score, Make feast upon the salt-bush by the kitchen door. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > respect > respect or show respect [verb (intransitive)] to make feasta1325 vail1509 vail1609 to know one's distancea1616 Schweik1973 the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > respect > [verb (transitive)] > show respect for wortheOE to do worship to (also till, for)OE honourc1275 worshipc1300 to make feasta1325 to do (a person or thing) honourc1330 observec1390 reverencec1400 weigh1423 honourable1455 worthya1500 honorify1606 to rise up to (also unto)1621 the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > honour > be honoured [verb (intransitive)] > show honour to to make feasta1325 a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 3552 Ðat folc..ðat calf ofrendes deden, And made gret fest in ðat stede. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 156 Þe lhord..him froteþ and makeþ him greate feste. a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) (1891) l. 5061 She..laugheth on hym and makith hym feeste. a1450 ( G. Chaucer Bk. Duchess (Tanner 346) (1871) l. 638 Þe scorpione That is a fals flateryng best For wiþ his hed he makiþ fest But al amyd his flateryng Wiþ his tayle it wil styng. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) lvi. 189 His doughter came to hym to make him feest. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > acquisition > [adjective] > obtained or acquired > in other specific manner feast won, fast losta1616 forageda1848 a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) ii. ii. 168 Feast won, fast lost . View more context for this quotation 1866 ‘Ouida’ Chandos I. ii. viii. 305 Timon! You make me an omnous parallel. Would you all be ‘feast-won, fast lost’? 1884 C. R. Williams Selections from Lucian (ed. 2) 199 Lucian makes this the result of his discovery that the friends upon whom he had lavished his substance were mere ‘trencher-friends’, ‘feast-won, fast-lost’, and that as soon as his riches had taken flight, their friendship and devotion likewise took wing. P3. enough is (as good as) a feast: see enough adj., pron., n., and adv. Phrases 3a. a feast fit for the gods: see god n. and int. Phrases 4c. ghost at the feast: see ghost n. and adj. Phrases 2d. < as lemmas |
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