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Etymology

From Middle English feeste, feste, borrowed from Old French feste, from Late Latin festa, from the plural of Latin festum (“holiday, festival, feast”), from Proto-Italic *fēs-tos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰéh₁s (“god, godhead, deity”); see also Ancient Greek θεός (theós, “god, goddess”). More at theo-. Doublet of fete, fiesta, and fest. Displaced Old English winhate.

derived from *dʰéh₁s✻
derived from *fēs-tos✻
derived from festum
derived from festa
derived from feste
inherited from feeste

Definitions

1
A holiday, festival, especially a religious one
- The seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord.
- Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover.
2
A very large meal, often of a ceremonial nature.
- We had a feast to celebrate the harvest.
3
Something delightful
- It was a feast for the eyes.
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1. 4
  To partake in a feast, or large meal.
  - I feasted on turkey and dumplings.
2. 5
  To dwell upon (something) with delight.
  - With my love's picture then my eye doth feast.
3. 6
  To hold a feast in honor of (someone).
  - He that shall see this day, and live old age, Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbors And say “Tomorrow is Saint Crispian.”
  - His ancestor, he said, had been feasted there, when he went forward with the then Lord Ravenswood to the fatal battle of Flodden, in which they both fell.
  - We feasted them after the victory.
4. 7
  To serve as a feast for
  To serve as a feast for; to feed sumptuously.
  - 1597–1598, Joseph Hall, Virgidemiarum Or once a week, perhaps, for novelty / Reez'd bacon-soords shall feast his family.
5. A surname from Middle English.

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Derived

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Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at feast. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

A definitional loop anchored at feast. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

5 hops · closes at feast

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