Definition of Feasts

1. Noun. (plural of feast) ¹

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Definition of Feasts

1. feast [v] - See also: feast

Lexicographical Neighbors of Feasts

feast days
feast for the eyes
feast one's eyes
feast or famine
feasted
feaster
feasters
feastest
feasteth
feastful
feasting
feastings
feastless
feastlike
feastly
feasts (current term)
feat
feat.
feat of strength
feated
feateous
feater
featest
feather-bed
feather-brain
feather-brained
feather-edge
feather-few
feather-foil

Literary usage of Feasts

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

1. 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)
"The succession of these seasons forms the ecclesiastical year, in which the feasts of Our Lord form the ground and framework, the feasts of the Blessed ..."

2. The Ancient History of the Egyptians, Carthaginians, Assyrians, Babylonians by Charles Rollin (1869)
"O'F THE feasts. AN infinite number of feasts were celebrated in the several cities of ... In these feasts were exhibited racing, the gymnastic combats, ..."

3. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"Terms three great feasts at which pilgrimage and was made to the great ... No single principle determines the character of feasts in the Old Testament. ..."

4. ... The Native Races: Of the Pacific States by Hubert Howe Bancroft (1886)
"SPECIAL OBSERVANCES—FIXED feasts-—SACRIFICE OP SLAVES — MONTHLY feasts OF THE ... THOUGH the information concerning the feasts, religious and otherwise, ..."

5. The Native Races of the Pacific States of North America by Hubert Howe Bancroft, Henry Lebbeus Oak, T. Arundel Harcourt, Albert Goldschmidt, Walter Mulrea Fisher, William Nemos (1875)
"feasts AND AMUSEMENTS OF THE MAYAS. SPECIAL OBSERVANCES — FIXED feasts— SACRIFICE ... Though the information concerning the feasts, religious and otherwise, ..."

6. A Theological Dictionary: Containing Definitions of All Religious Terms by Charles Buck (1831)
"feasts, and the ceremonies Sometimes it rouses all nature to exert thereof, ... Immoveable feasts are those constantly celebrated on the ;e apostle Paul, ..."

7. Lost Chapters Recovered from the Early History of American Methodism by Joseph Beaumont Wakeley (1858)
"Love-feasts not of recent origin —Were early held in the Christian Church ... WE now call the reader's attention to Love-feasts and Love-feast tickets, ..."

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