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Semidouble

An office or feast celebrated with less solemnity than the double ones See Double

The fifteenth day after a feast day including both in the reckoning

sixteenth of the Jewish month Nisan hence called also the Feast of Weeks At this festival an offering of the first

own and neighboring tribesmen often formerly to his own impoverishment Feasting dancing and public ceremonies accompany it

to the Phaeligacians a fabulous seafaring people fond of the feast the lyre and the dance mentioned by Homer

A feast of the Jews instituted to commemorate the sparing of the

The passover the feast of Easter

To exceed in feasting

(commonly called Peter's Pence), an annual payment on St. Peter's feast of a penny from every family to the pope, while

Coshering, a feudal custom, whereby the lords may lie and feast themselves and their followers at their tenants' houses, etc., forbidden