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joy or exhilaration of spirits at an entertaintment; joyfulness; gayety. The unrestrained festivity of the rustic youth. Bp. Hurd.

Want of festivity, cheerfulness, or mirth; dullness; cheerlessness. [R.]

e throng." "Amidst thick clouds." Milton. "Amidst acclamations." "Amidst the splendor and festivity of a court." Macaulay. But rather famish them amid their plenty. Shak.

pertaining to a feast or to festivity; convivial. [Obs.] "A convival dish." Sir T. Browne.

Of or relating to a feast or entertainment, or to eating and drinking, with accompanying festivity; festive; social; gay; jovial. Which feasts convivial meetings we did name. Denham.

The good humor or mirth indulged in upon festive occasions; a convivial spirit or humor; festivity.

A nocturnal festivity with which the Australian aborigines celebrate tribal events of importance. Symbolic dances are given by the young men of the tribe, while the women act as musicians.

Among Spanish, a religious festival; a saint's day or holiday; also, a holiday or festivity.

Pomp, show, or festivity. Macaulay. Gala day, a day of mirth and festivity; a holiday.

A merrymaking; noisy festivity. [Colloq.] We have had a jollification or so together. Sir W. Scott.

Noisy mirth; gayety; merriment; festivity; boisterous enjoyment. Chaucer. All now was turned to jollity and game. Milton. He with a proud jollity commanded him to leave that quarrel only for him, who was only worthy to enter into it. Sir P. Sidney.

The sign or exhibition of joy; gayety; mirth; merriment; festivity. Such joy made Una, when her knight she found. Spenser. The roofs with joy resound. Dryden.

Enjoyment; gayety; festivity; joyfulness. Spenser. Some days of joyance are decreed to all. Byron. From what hid fountains doth thy joyance flow Trench.

A feast with loose and noisy jollity; riotous festivity or merrymaking; a carousal. This day in mirth and revel to dispend. Chaucer. Some men ruin . . . their bodies by incessant revels. Rambler. Master of the revels, Revel master. Same as Lord of misrule, under Lord.

Tumultuous festivity; revelry. [Obs.] Rowe.

Fond of festivity; given to merrymaking or reveling. [Obs.] Companionable and revelous was she. Chaucer.

The act of engaging in a revel; noisy festivity; reveling. And pomp and feast and revelry. Milton.

Excessive and exxpensive feasting; wild and loose festivity; revelry. Venus loveth riot and dispense. Chaucer. The lamb thy riot dooms to bleed to-day. Pope.

The festivity of Shrovetide. [Obs.]

Hence, festivity; merriment. [Obs.] Shak.