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Definition of Feasting

1. Noun. Eating an elaborate meal (often accompanied by entertainment).

Definition of Feasting

1. feast [v] - See also: feast

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Feasting

feases feasibilities feasibility feasibility feasibility studies feasible feasibleness feasibly feasing feast

feast feasted feaster feasters feastful feasting (current term) feastings feastless feasts feast day

Feast of Booths Feast of Dedication Feast of Dormition Feast of Lights Feast of Sacrifice Feast of Tabernacles Feast of the Circumcision Feast of the Dedication Feast of the Unleavened Bread Feast of Weeks

Literary usage of Feasting

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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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