Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Festive; joyful; sumptuous; luxurious: as, feastful rites.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Festive; festal; joyful; sumptuous; luxurious.
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- adjective
Festive ;joyful ;sumptuous ;luxurious .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Thou, when the Bridegroom with his feastful friends
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During her life after this journey was no trouble among the Jews, and the day of this victory of the Hebrews was accepted for a feastful day, and hallowed of the Jews and numbered among their feasts unto this day.
The Golden Legend, vol. 2 1230-1298 1900
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But when they heard his friendly words, and saw the beauty of the fair woman whose hand he held, his face grew so well-beloved to them, that they cried out with so great a voice of cheer, wordless for their very joy, that the timbers of the hall quavered because of it, and it went out into the wild-wood as though it had been the feastful roaring of the ancient gods of the forest.
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'When the bridegroom with his feastful friends passes to bliss at the mid hour of night,' they who have 'filled their odorous lamps with deeds of light' have surely 'gained their entrance.'
Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII Alexander Maclaren 1868
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His feastful friends, passes to bliss, at the mid-hour of night, 'we shall gain our entrance.
Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII Alexander Maclaren 1868
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As the sound of the feastful Niblungs round his misty house is rolled:
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs William Morris 1865
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Lo, a flock of the mountain-eagles that drew to the feastful plain;
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung William Morris 1865
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As the sound of the feastful Niblungs round his misty house is rolled:
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung William Morris 1865
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Lo, a flock of the mountain-eagles that drew to the feastful plain;
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs William Morris 1865
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On those sons of the feastful warriors in the Niblungs 'holy hall.
The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs William Morris 1865
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