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Cleopatra's feast in a palace interior. On the left Cleopatra is sitting at the table with bare breasts, on the right is Mark Antony. Various guests and members of the royal household are standing around the table. Depicted is the moment when Lucius Plancus prevents Cleopatra from taking a second pearl from her earring to dissolve in her wine. This makes Mark Antony lose the bet on who could give the most expensive banquet. A hunting dog is lying on the floor in front of the table.
Cleopatra's feast in a palace interior. On the left Cleopatra is sitting at the table with bare breasts, on the right is Mark Antony. Various guests and members of the royal household are standing around the table. Depicted is the moment when Lucius Plancus prevents Cleopatra from taking a second pearl from her earring to dissolve in her wine. This makes Mark Antony lose the bet on who could give the most expensive banquet. A hunting dog is lying on the floor in front of the table.
  1. (v) feast
    gratify "feed one's eyes on a gorgeous view"
  2. (v) feast
    partake in a feast or banquet
  3. (v) feast
    provide a feast or banquet for
  4. (n) feast
    something experienced with great delight "a feast for the eyes"
  5. (n) feast
    an elaborate party (often outdoors)
  6. (n) feast
    a meal that is well prepared and greatly enjoyed "a banquet for the graduating seniors","the Thanksgiving feast","they put out quite a spread"
  7. (n) feast
    a ceremonial dinner party for many people
Illustrations
The rich man is lavishly served in his home. An extensive feast is prepared in the kitchen. Poor Lazarus, a beggar, is starving at the door of the house. Two dogs lick his wounds. In the background, a landscape shows how the rich man ends up in the fire of hell, and Lazarus is taken up to heaven.
The rich man is lavishly served in his home. An extensive feast is prepared in the kitchen. Poor Lazarus, a beggar, is starving at the door of the house. Two dogs lick his wounds. In the background, a landscape shows how the rich man ends up in the fire of hell, and Lazarus is taken up to heaven.
A Jewish family celebrates the meal at the Feast of Tabernacles, ca.1720-1725. Part of a series of illustrations of religious practices.
A Jewish family celebrates the meal at the Feast of Tabernacles, ca.1720-1725. Part of a series of illustrations of religious practices.
Depiction of the Golden Age. Life is good and people are happy. They celebrate the feast in honor of the goddess Flora and decorate their homes with flowers and garlands and collect fruit. Saturn sits to the right of the cloud, as patron of this happy time.
Depiction of the Golden Age. Life is good and people are happy. They celebrate the feast in honor of the goddess Flora and decorate their homes with flowers and garlands and collect fruit. Saturn sits to the right of the cloud, as patron of this happy time.
Stoneware jug on a high foot with an ovoid body and narrow, long neck. The ear is attached to the neck and shoulder. Profiles on the neck, shoulder and foot. Covered with a brown engobe. On the belly and neck, four printed and superimposed medallions with the Feast of Herod are embossed. A tin frame with lid is attached to the ear and the base is also housed in a tin frame. Raeren.
Jar with the Feast of Herod
A grand Bacchanal with feasting satyrs and nymphs near a small lake. In the foreground lies the drunken Bacchus, a maenad stands with him, beating her tambourine. Bacchus is laughed at on the right by two nymphs and children, next to this is a satyr who tries to wake Bacchus with a shepherd's flute.
A grand Bacchanal with feasting satyrs and nymphs near a small lake. In the foreground lies the drunken Bacchus, a maenad stands with him, beating her tambourine. Bacchus is laughed at on the right by two nymphs and children, next to this is a satyr who tries to wake Bacchus with a shepherd's flute.
Allegorical representation with wine as ruler of the world. A group of men feast on wine. Eventually, two boys take the king's scepter and keys. Fighting takes place in the background. Depiction from 3 Ezr 3-4.
Allegorical representation with wine as ruler of the world. A group of men feast on wine. Eventually, two boys take the king's scepter and keys. Fighting takes place in the background. Depiction from 3 Ezr 3-4.
Roman feast, 1705. Interior in which Catholics indulge in gluttony and lust. Banquet in which monks, a priest, a hermit and other Catholic clergy indulge in excessive eating and drinking in the company of naked and scantily caged women. On the walls depictions of the fox preaching and confessing. To the left of the bed with the sleeping and naked woman, devils set fire to the world and Avarice counts the money earned. On the right, Envy gnaws at a heart. A personification of Rage keeps the door closed to the Jansenist. The women symbolize the seven deadly sins. At the top right a cartouche with text has been added. Sheet no. 13 in the series of 13 sheets with cartoons of the Jesuits entitled Roma Pertubata, 1707. Part of the print work published under the collective title 't Lust-Hof van Momus with the bundled series of cartoons during the years 1701-1713 of the War of the Spanish Succession.
Roman feast, 1705. Interior in which Catholics indulge in gluttony and lust. Banquet in which monks, a priest, a hermit and other Catholic clergy indulge in excessive eating and drinking in the company of naked and scantily caged women. On the walls depictions of the fox preaching and confessing. To the left of the bed with the sleeping and naked woman, devils set fire to the world and Avarice counts the money earned. On the right, Envy gnaws at a heart. A personification of Rage keeps the door closed to the Jansenist. The women symbolize the seven deadly sins. At the top right a cartouche with text has been added. Sheet no. 13 in the series of 13 sheets with cartoons of the Jesuits entitled Roma Pertubata, 1707. Part of the print work published under the collective title 't Lust-Hof van Momus with the bundled series of cartoons during the years 1701-1713 of the War of the Spanish Succession.
Bacchus and Venus are in a low wagon pulled by two centaurs. Satyrs feasting around them.
Bacchus and Venus are in a low wagon pulled by two centaurs. Satyrs feasting around them.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Interesting fact
In 1659, the General Court of Massachusetts ordered that anybody caught feasting or laying off from work, or in any other way goofing off on any other day other than Christmas, would be fined five shillings for each such offense.
  1. Feast
    A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary. "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. Feast
    A festive or joyous meal; a grand, ceremonious, or sumptuous entertainment, of which many guests partake; a banquet characterized by tempting variety and abundance of food. "Enough is as good as a feast .", "Belshazzar the King made a great feast to a thousand of his lords."
  3. Feast
    That which is partaken of, or shared in, with delight; something highly agreeable; entertainment. "The feast of reason, and the flow of soul."
  4. Feast
    To be highly gratified or delighted. "With my love's picture then my eye doth feast ."
  5. Feast
    To delight; to gratify; as, to feast the soul. "Feast your ears with the music a while."
  6. Feast
    To eat sumptuously; to dine or sup on rich provisions, particularly in large companies, and on public festivals. "And his sons went and feasted in their houses."
  7. Feast
    To entertain with sumptuous provisions; to treat at the table bountifully; as, he was feasted by the king.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
Interesting fact
Mayonnaise is said to be the invention of the French chef of the Duke de Richelieu in 1756. While the Duke was defeating the British at Port Mahon, his chef was creating a victory feast that included a sauce made of cream and eggs. When the chef realized that there was no cream in the kitchen, he improvised, substituting olive oil for the cream. A new culinary masterpiece was born, and the chef named it "Mahonnaise" in honor of the Duke's victory.
  1. (n) feast
    A festival in commemoration of some event, or in honor of some distinguished person; a set time of festivity and rejoicing: opposed to fast. In this sense the word is almost entirely confined to ecclesiastical feasts. In the Jewish church the most important feasts, apart from the sabbath, were those of the Atonement, the Passover, Tabernacles, and Pentecost. To these were subsequently added the feasts of Purim and the Dedication. In the Christian church Christmas and Easter are feasts of almost universal recognition and observance. To these many others have been added, celebrating events in the life of Christ or in the lives of the apostles, saints, and martyrs. Feasts are divided into movable and immovable, according as they occur on a specific day of the week succeeding a certain day of the month or phase of the moon, or at a fixed date. Easter is a movable feast, upon which all other movable feasts depend; Christmas is an immovable feast. In the Roman Catholic Church feasts are further divided into obligatory, and nonobligatory, and again into doubles, semi-doubles, simples, etc., according to the religious offices required to be recited in the church service.
  2. (n) feast
    A sumptuous entertainment or repast of which a number of guests partake; particularly, a rich or splendid public entertainment.
  3. (n) feast
    Any rich, delicious, or abundant repast or meal; hence, something delicious or highly agreeable, or in which some delectable quality abounds.
  4. (n) feast
    Synonyms Feast, Banquet, Festival. The idea of a social meal of unusual richness or abundance, for the purposes of pleasure, may be common to these words. Feast is generic; specifically, it differs from banquet in the fact that at a feast the food is abundant and choice, while at a banquet there is richness or expensiveness, and especially pomp or ceremony. The essential characteristic of a festival is concurrence in the manifestation of joy, the joyous celebration of some event, feasting being a frequent but not necessary part: as, to hold high festival. See carousal.
  5. feast
    To make a feast; have a feast; eat sumptuously or abundantly.
  6. feast
    Figuratively, to dwell with gratification or delight: as, to feast on a poem or a picture.
  7. feast
    To provide with a feast; entertain with sumptuous fare.
  8. feast
    To delight; pamper; gratify luxuriously: as, to feast the soul.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
Interesting fact
The largest item on any menu in the world is probably the roast camel, sometimes served at Bedouin wedding feasts. The camel is stuffed with a sheep's carcass, which is stuffed with chickens, which are stuffed with fish, which are stuffed with eggs.
  1. (n) Feast
    fēst a day of unusual solemnity or joy: a festival in commemoration of some event—movable, such as occurs on a specific day of the week succeeding a certain day of the month, as Easter; immovable, at a fixed date, as Christmas: a rich and abundant repast: rich enjoyment for the mind or heart
  2. (v.i) Feast
    to hold a feast: to eat sumptuously: to receive intense delight
  3. (v.t) Feast
    to entertain sumptuously
Quotations
Ernest Hemingway
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.
Ernest Hemingway
Francis Bacon
A good conscience is a continual feast.
Francis Bacon
Samuel Pepys
Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.
Samuel Pepys
A civil guest will no more talk all, than eat all the feast.
George Herheri
Harry A. Overstreet
Better a dish of illusion and a hearty appetite for life, than a feast of reality and indigestion therewith.
Harry A. Overstreet
George Santayana
Life is not a spectacle or a feast; it is a predicament.
George Santayana
Idioms

Feast today, famine tomorrow - If you indulge yourself with all that you have today, you may have to go without tomorrow.

Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary OE. feste, festival, holiday, feast, OF. feste, festival, F. fête, fr. L. festum, pl. festa, fr. festus, joyful, festal; of uncertain origin. Cf. Fair (n.) Festal Fête

Usage in the news

Feasting , New England-Style. yankeemagazine.com

Foodie & The Feastly : It's My First Time Dining With Strangers Via The Internet. ashingtoncitypaper.com

Last weekend, I ended my boycott of Adams Morgan and attended my first meal organized by Feastly , the DC start-up that uses an internet platform to connect willing cooks and hungry foodies for dinner parties in private residences. ashingtoncitypaper.com

It wasn't the first Thanksgiving feast, but it was certainly the cutest as Lakeville Elementary kindergartners broke bread together Nov 21. oxfordleader.com

A movable feast rolls into Hudson. clevescene.com

San Francisco's Chinatown a Feast for Five Senses . theintelligencer.net

Eating Verlander's Taco Bell feast. espn.go.com

Growing up on Cousins Island in Yarmouth, I don't remember a summer season passing without the ritualistic day-long feast. downeast.com

CARNEYS POINT – Thanksgiving is upon us – a time to share with family, watch our favorite teams, and have a feast together. nj.com

Members of the Clube Portugues perform during the Folklore Festival at the 26th annual Great Feast of the Holy Ghost of New England on Saturday. heraldnews.com

Dancers liven up Great Feast of the Holy Ghost. heraldnews.com

Feast Of All Souls At Vineyard Food Company . mauitime.com

And even if multiple people ordered the same dish, her voice is such that it speaks to you and only you, so that only you get up when it's your time to feast upon the best food-court Italian in the county. ocweekly.com

Gulf Floor Fouled by Bacterial Oil Feast. usnews.com

Francis Bacon offers a strange feast for the eye. artinamericamagazine.com

Usage in scientific papers

Cepheid distances to the MC are traditionally found by comparing PL (period luminosity) or PLC (period luminosity color) relation zeropoints between the MC and our galaxy (Feast & Walker 1987, Laney & Stobie 1994).
The Distances of the Magellanic Clouds

Infrared PL relations with small scatter have been found for Mira variables in the MC (Feast et al. 1989, Groenewegen & Whitelock 1996).
The Distances of the Magellanic Clouds

The slope may be estimated in a number of ways, none of which give significantly different values (see Feast 1999 for a discussion of this point and for a more detailed discussion of many of the points mentioned in the present paper).
Local Distance Indicators

Both the proper motions (Feast & Whitelock 1997) and the radial velocities (e.g.
Local Distance Indicators

Feast 1999, van Leeuwen 2000, Robichon et al. 2000) that these problems arise though a combination of photometric errors, errors in adopted reddenings and errors in assumed metallicity, all of which can have a significant effect because of the steepness of the main sequence.
Local Distance Indicators

Usage in literature

At Christmas they always shared in our feasting. "Sketches of Our Life at Sarawak" by Harriette McDougall

No natives came next day; they were all busy preparing the feast. "Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific" by Felix Speiser

Only the young Franciscan, silent and motionless just now at the feast, awake still. "An Eagle Flight" by José Rizal

For this reason it was usual to make an expedition into the enemy's country before the marriage feast of any great chief. "Children of Borneo" by Edwin Herbert Gomes

A remarkable painting, discovered at Pompeii, gives a curious idea of a complete feast. "Museum of Antiquity" by L. W. Yaggy

I'd give him a piece of my mind to feast upon, and I hope he'd have a good appetite for it. "A Budget of Christmas Tales by Charles Dickens and Others" by Various

Lay out a royal feast and kill one of the fattest bucks. "Robin Hood" by Paul Creswick

Thereupon they repaired to the tent, where the fair Tsarevna was waiting for them; and they all rejoiced and feasted together. "The Russian Garland" by Various

They drink, feast, and dance freely; and, in their matrimonial forms, much resemble the Bodo. "The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies" by Robert Gordon Latham

To celebrate each noted event a feast and dance would be given. "Geronimo's Story of His Life" by Geronimo

Usage in poetry
Yes! we will remember Thee,
Friend and Saviour! and thy feast
Of all services shall be
Holiest and welcomest.
"Communion" by John Bowring Author object (359)
Since Jesus freely did appear
To grace a marriage feast:
O Lord, we ask thy presence here
To make a wedding guest.
"A Wedding Hymn" by Noah Calwell W Cannon
Not all the blessings of a feast
Can please my soul so well,
As when thy richer grace I taste,
And in thy presence dwell.
"Psalm 63 part 1" by Isaac Watts Author object (310)
He bade us to a lordly feast,
And gave us of his best;
And vanished, while the mirth increased,
To be Another’s guest.
"For Charles Dickens" by Mary Hannay Foott
Ye know not from what lordly feast
Hither I come this night,
Nor to what lodging with the stars
From hence I take my flight.
"An Angel Unawares" by Cicely Fox Smith
Pictures there are that do not please
With any sweet surprise,
But gain the heart by slow degrees
Until they feast the eyes;
"The Disciple" by George MacDonald Author object (244)