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Feasting   /fˈistɪŋ/   Listen
Feasting

noun
1.
Eating an elaborate meal (often accompanied by entertainment).  Synonym: banqueting.



Feast

verb
(past & past part. feasted; pres. part. feasting)
1.
Partake in a feast or banquet.  Synonyms: banquet, junket.
2.
Provide a feast or banquet for.  Synonyms: banquet, junket.
3.
Gratify.  Synonym: feed.



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"Feasting" Quotes from Famous Books



... with the means. Having been well supplied with money by Mr. Thompson, and no limit put to his expenses, he began his work with a will. He seems to have begun by getting generally well acquainted with the officers of the vessel, by feasting them, and now and then lending them money, or accommodating them in some other way, until he had won the confidence of all those in command of the steamer, as well as those in charge of Johnston's Island. After a time, he found ...
— The Great North-Western Conspiracy In All Its Startling Details • I. Windslow Ayer

... for example, the times of Vespasian. Thou wilt see all these things, people marrying, bringing up children, sick, dying, warring, feasting, trafficking, cultivating the ground, flattering, obstinately arrogant, suspecting, plotting, wishing for some to die, grumbling about the present, loving, heaping up treasure, desiring consulship, kingly ...
— The Thoughts Of The Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus • Marcus Aurelius

... ran through the woods with their usual impetuosity, had driven the invaders to their boats: Then advice was brought to town, that the party who landed on Wando Neck had killed a number of hogs and cattle, and were feasting on the plunder. To prevent their farther progress into the country, and give them a check if possible, Captain Cantey, with an hundred chosen men, was ordered to pass the river privately in the night, and watch their motions. Before break of day the captain ...
— An Historical Account Of The Rise And Progress Of The Colonies Of South Carolina And Georgia, Volume 1 • Alexander Hewatt

... civilization. On the contrary, he sits down, folds his hands, and blesses himself in his idleness. This way of thinking is the heritage of the absurd and unjust feudal system under which serfs labored, and gentlemen spent their lives in fighting and feasting. It is time that this opprobrium of toil were done away. Ashamed to toil, art thou? Ashamed of thy dingy work-shop and dusty labor-field; of thy hard hand scarred with service more honorable than that of war; of thy soiled and weather-stained garments, on which mother ...
— The American Union Speaker • John D. Philbrick

... For rollways must be broken out in the light of day, and the air rang with loud laughter and the rhythmic swing of roaring chanteys, as the men realized that they were not to be robbed of their gala day with its long night of feasting. ...
— The Promise - A Tale of the Great Northwest • James B. Hendryx


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