Definition of Feast day

1. Noun. A day designated for feasting.


Definition of Feast day

1. Noun. a day allocated to a particular saint. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Feast Day

fearsomenesses
feasance
feasances
fease
feased
feases
feasibilities
feasibility
feasibility studies
feasible
feasibleness
feasibly
feasing
feast
feast-day
feast day
feast days
feast for the eyes
feast one's eyes
feast or famine
feasted
feaster
feasters
feastest
feasteth
feastful
feasting
feastings
feastless
feastlike

Literary usage of Feast day

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"... that for a redeemed Christian every day was a feast-day. At the same time, the need of common 1. Sunday devotional festivals in which all could and take ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"He not only preached, as required, every Sunday and feast day in the cathedral, and even daily during fasts, but also, on special occasions, ..."

3. Personal Narrative of Explorations and Incidents in Texas, New Mexico by John Russell Bartlett (1854)
"... found—Reach Saltillo—No work on a feast day—Fine church—Cotton factories—Dr. Hewison—Economical use of water. November 28th to December 1st. ..."

4. Encyclopædia Biblica: A Critical Dictionary of the Literary, Political and by Thomas Kelly Cheyne (1901)
"Of Pilate one could rest assured that even on the feast-day he would not hesitate to repress any tumult. If he desecrated the day by an execution, ..."

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