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Feasts, anniversary days of rejoining, either on a civil or religious occasion; opposed to fasts. Our feasts are either (1) immovable, such as Christmas-day, the Circumcision, Epiphany, Candlemas-day, Lady-day, All Saints, and All Souls, besides the days of the several apostles, St. Peter, St. Thomas, etc.: these are always celebrated on the same day of the year; or (2) movable, such as Easter,which fixes all the rest, as Palm Sunday, Good Friday, Ash Wednesday, Sexagesima, Ascension-day, Pentecost, Trinity Sunday, etc. The four principal immovable feasts of the year, which are commonly assigned in England for the payment of rents on leases, are the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, or Lady-day, being the 25th of March; the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, held on the 24th of June; the feast of St. Michael on the 29th of September; and Christmas-day on the 25th of December.A still unrepealed Act of 1551-2 (5 & 6 Edw. 6, c. 3), directs certain days therein mentioned (being all S...
All Saints, Feast of
All Saints, Feast of, 1st of November....
Annunciation, feast of
Annunciation, feast of. 25th March, known as Lady Day, see QUARTER DAYS....
Banquetter
One who banquets one who feasts or makes feasts...
Dedication-day
Dedication-day [festum dedicationis, Lat.], the feast of dedication of churches, or rather the feast-day of the saint and patron of a church, which was celebrated not only by the inhabitants of a place, but by those of all the neighbouring villages who usually came thither, and such assemblies were allowed as lawful. It was usual for the people to feast and to drink on those days, Cowel...
Hanukka
The Jewish Feast of the Dedication instituted by Judas Maccabaeligus his brothers and the whole congregation of Israel in 165 b c to commemorate the dedication of the new altar set up at the purification of the temple of Jerusalem to replace the altar which had been polluted by Antiochus Epiphanes of Syria 1 Maccabees i 58 iv 59 The feast which is mentioned in John x 22 is held for eight days beginning with the 25th day of Kislev corresponding to December and is celebrated everywhere chiefly as a festival of lights by the Jews...
Banquet
A feast a sumptuous entertainment of eating and drinking often a complimentary or ceremonious feast followed by speeches...
Junket
To feast to banquet to make an entertainment sometimes applied opprobriously to feasting by public officers at the public cost...
Epulation
A feasting or feast banquet...
Omophagic
Eating raw flesh using uncooked meat as food as omophagic feasts rites...
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