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Of or pertaining to a holiday or a feast; joyous; festive. You bless with choicer wine the festal day. Francis.

To feast; to entertain. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A time of feasting or celebration; an anniversary day of joy, civil or religious. The morning trumpets festival proclaimed. Milton.

Pertaining to, or becoming, a feast; festal; joyous; gay; mirthful; sportive. -- Fes"tive*ly, adv. The glad circle round them yield their souls To festive mirth and wit that knows no gall. Thomson.

Pertaining to a feast; festive. [R.] Sir W. Scott.

To feast; to honor with a festival.

To be proper or becoming. Nor fits it to prolong the feast. Pope.

tion, music, or the like, resembling the quiet, steady movement of a river; a stream. The feast of reason and the flow of soul. Pope.

Beyond a (certain) boundary; away; abroad; out. I have no mind of feasting forth to-night. Shak.

A feast given by one about to leave a place. [Obs.] He did at the Dog give me, and some other friends of his, his foy, he being to set sail to-day. Pepys.

See Gaudy, a feast.

A feast or festival; -- called also gaud-day and gaudy day. [Oxford Univ.] Conybeare.

Joy; merriment; mirth; gayety; paricularly, the mirth enjoyed at a feast. Spenser.

t indulgence of the appetite for food; voracity. Their sumptuous gluttonies, and gorgeous feasts. Milton.

s.] Beau. & . -- Goose corn (Bot.), a coarse kind of rush (Juncus squarrosus). -- Goose feast, Michaelmas. [Colloq. Eng.] -- Goose flesh, a peculiar roughness of the skin produced by cold or fear; -- called also goose skin.goose pimples and goose bumps -- Goose grass. (Bot.)

civil year with the solar, and also the regulation of the time of Easter and the movable feasts by means of epochs. See Gregorian year (below). -- Gregorian chant (Mus.), plain song, or canto fermo, a kind of unisonous music, according to the eight celebrated church modes, as arranged and prescribed by Pope Gregory I…

Performing, or appropriate to, the office of a protector; as, a guardian care. Feast of Guardian Angels (R. C. Ch.) a church festival instituted by Pope Paul V., and celebrated on October 2d. -- Guardian angel. (a) The particular spiritual being believed in some branches of the Christian church to have guardianship an…

The feast of All Saints; Hallowmas. [Obs.]

The feast of All Saints, or Allhallows. To speak puling, like a beggar at Hallowmas. Shak.

The Jewish Feast of the Dedication, instituted by Judas Maccabæus, 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 (1 Maccabees i. 58…