blood feast
/ˈblʌd fiːst/noun
1An occasion of extended or unrestrained violence and bloodshed; a war or massacre.
2A feast of blood or flesh, especially that of a person killed as part of a ritual or occult practice.
3An instance of feeding on the blood of a person or animal by a mosquito, leech, etc.
Origin
Early 17th century; earliest use found in George Chapman (?1560–1634), poet and playwright. From blood + feast.
- infelicitously
- infelicity
- infer
- inferable
- inference
- inferential
- inferentially
- inferior
- inferior conjunction
- inferiority
- inferiority complex
- inferiorly
- inferior olivary eminence
- inferior planet
- infernal
- infernally
- inferno
- infertile
- infertility
- infertility clinic
- infertility treatment
- in fess
- infest
- infestation
- infeudation