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Definition of Feasting
1. Noun. Eating an elaborate meal (often accompanied by entertainment).
Definition of Feasting
1. Verb. (present participle of feast) ¹
2. Noun. A feast, or an occasion on which people or animals feast ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Feasting
1. feast [v] - See also: feast
Lexicographical Neighbors of Feasting
Literary usage of Feasting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Complete Works and Life of Laurence Sterne by Laurence Sterne, Wilbur Lucius Cross, Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald (1904)
"And first, let us look into the house of feasting. And here, to be as fair and
candid as possible in the description of this, we will not take it from the ..."
2. The Sermons of Mr. Yorick by Laurence Sterne, Wilbur Lucius Cross (1904)
"And first, let us look into the house of feasting. And here, to be as fair and
candid as possible in the description of this, we will not take it from the ..."
3. The Treasury of British Eloquence: Specimens of Brilliant Orations by the by Robert Cochrane (1877)
"THE HOUSE OF feasting AND THE HOUSE OF MOURNING DESCRIBED.* THAT I deny ; but
let us hear the wise man's reasoning upon it—"For that ts the end of all men, ..."
4. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"But, when the mound was heap'd, they hied them back, And all that night in full
assembly sate feasting on funeral-banquet in the halls Of Priam, ..."
5. The Cabinet of Irish Literature: Selections from the Works of the Chief Poet by Charles Anderson Read, Thomas Power O'Connor (1893)
"THE HOUSE OF feasting AND THE HOUSE OF MOURNING DESCRIBED. A SERMON ON ECCLES.
VIL 2, 3. For what purpose, do you imagine, has God made us? ..."
6. The History of Scotish Poetry by David Irving, David Laing (1861)
"Forth feasting, a poem written in the year 1617 on the King's visit to his native
dominions,1 may be considered as his best performance ; it abounds with ..."
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