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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....
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...
Banquet
A feast a sumptuous entertainment of eating and drinking often a complimentary or ceremonious feast followed by speeches...
Banquetter
One who banquets one who feasts or makes feasts...
Epulation
A feasting or feast banquet...
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...
Junket
To feast to banquet to make an entertainment sometimes applied opprobriously to feasting by public officers at the public cost...
Easter
Easter [fr. Ostern, Ger., supposed to be derived from the name of the Teutonic goddess Ostera (oster, to rise), celebrated by the ancient Saxons early in the spring], a movable feast of the church, held in memory of our Saviour's resurrection.Easter Day, on which all the other movable feasts and holy days of the Church depend, is always the first Sunday after the Full Moon which happens upon, or next after, the twenty-first day of March; and if the Full Moon happens upon a Sunday, Easter Day is the Sunday after, Book of Common Prayer.Easter Monday is made a Bank Holiday by (English) 34 & 35 Vict. c. 17, and 38 & 39 Vict. c. 13....
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