love-feasts

If it is disagreeable to a young and pretty mouth to glue itself to one which is old and ugly, there is also great danger in the junction of fresh and vermilion lips of the age of twenty to twenty-five — a truth which has finally abolished the ceremony of kissing in mysteries and love-feasts.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

The first Christians, male and female, kissed with the mouth at their Agapæ, or love-feasts.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

It was this custom, these kisses of peace, these love-feasts, these appellations of brother and sister, which drew on the Christians, while little known, those imputations of debauchery bestowed upon them by the priests of Jupiter and the priestesses of Vesta.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

The love-feasts that had wont to be between their Prince and them, though he made them still, and called them to them, yet they neglected to come to them, or to be delighted with them.

The Holy War 2001

Some think there is a reference to the agapae, or love-feasts.

ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

Among the family of Presbyterian kirks in Wilmington the youngest is a large brick edifice built in 1871, for sixty-one thousand dollars, on Eighth and Washington streets, able to seat nearly a thousand persons, most comfortably and invitingly furnished, and supplied with lecture -, infant - and Sunday-school-rooms, together with a huge kitchen, suggesting the _agapæ_ or love-feasts of the primitive Christians.

Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873 Various

Some paintings represent scenes of early Christian life, the sacred rites of the Church, and the love-feasts of the first Christians.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 Various

The primitive Agapæ, or love-feasts, were often nothing more than such banquets in the memorial cells at the tombs of the faithful.

Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan

In higher echelons of government all over the world it produced such raging hatred of the children and the United States together as made all previous tensions seem love-feasts by comparison.

Long Ago, Far Away Murray Leinster 1935

The Voice and the stage-director had had another of their love-feasts -- this time something to do with why Bill's "blues" weren't on the job or something.

Death at the Excelsior And Other Stories 1928