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feasting

ˈfistɪŋ
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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. (n) feasting
    eating an elaborate meal (often accompanied by entertainment)
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.
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.

Usage in the news

Feast Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe. norwichbulletin.com

The cross is carried by altar boys during The Feast Day of Our Lady of Guadalupe Saturday, December 12, 2009 at the Cathedral of Saint Patrick in Norwich. norwichbulletin.com

Saturday's Feast Day at the Tucumcari Historical Museum drew a steady crowd throughout day, museum manager Bruce Nutt said. qcsunonline.com

When will be John Paul II's feast day . ncregister.com

Feast Day at Sallie Curtis Elementary School. beaumontenterprise.com

Medard Feast Day is Today, June 8. 999ktdy.com

Feasting on the job. timesargus.com

Feasting with friends, as Equinox holds its annual Thanksgiving dinner. nyt.com

Feasting on the weak. columbiatribune.com

In Santa Paula, and you'll want to be the "afterlife" of the party while enjoying the " feasting " at a reserved table for eight. santapaulatimes.com

Feasting on Puyallup Fair desserts. blog.thenewstribune.com

The French Omelet at Babette's Feast. ocweekly.com

A Moveable Feast John Henderson. denverpost.com

Five Courses of Rat at an Art World 'Post-Apocalyptic Hunter- Gatherer Feast' on the Lower East Side. observer.com

Cowboys must feast on cupcakes. espn.go.com

Usage in scientific papers

Dust can still form continuously near the star, without completely obscuring its photosphere (Feast 1997).
R Coronae Borealis stars in the Galactic Bulge discovered by EROS-2

The dotted curve corresponds to the combination of blackbodies consisting of a 5500 K star and a 1000 K dust shell in various proportions ranging from all ’star’ to all ’shell’ (from Feast 1997).
R Coronae Borealis stars in the Galactic Bulge discovered by EROS-2

Fraenkel, Mathematical chats between two physicists, in: Puzzler’s Tribute: A Feast for the Mind (D.
Difference between minimum light numbers of sigma-game and lit-only sigma-game

Examples of “non-classical” standard candles include Long Period Variables (LPVs) (Feast et al. 1989; Matsunaga et al. 2009), OGLE Small Amplitude Red Giants (OSARGs; Wray et al. 2004), eclipsing binaries (Paczy´nski 1997) and Large Amplitude δ Scuti stars (McNamara 1997).
Standard candles from the Gaia perspective

Spectra of all three stars were obtained by Feast (1972).
The MACHO Project LMC Variable Star Inventory: III. New R Coronae Borealis Stars

Usage in literature

And the ravens that night feasted on her shattered body. "A Book of Myths" by Jean Lang

The young official was in need rather of rest than of feasting. "Debts of Honor" by Maurus Jókai

In 1629 the Papal Bull of Urban VIII., dated September 14, 1627, was published in Manila, amidst public feasts and popular rejoicing. "The Philippine Islands" by John Foreman

All heads were bowed while one of the brethren said a long grace and then the feast began. "Patchwork" by Anna Balmer Myers

The narrative of the cleansing follows the story of the wedding-feast. "My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year" by John Henry Jowett

It was feast together when plenty comes; starve together when plenty goes. "On the Indian Trail" by Egerton Ryerson Young

He never turns aside from pleasure, or resists an invitation to the feast. "Nights in London" by Thomas Burke

He may be slain at a feast of the dead by his master. "Folkways" by William Graham Sumner

Therefore loose, at once, Their steeds, and introduce them to the feast. "The Odyssey of Homer" by Homer

After the feast the guests were led into each one of them, and introduced to the inmates. "The Adventures of the Chevalier De La Salle and His Companions, in Their Explorations of the Prairies, Forests, Lakes, and Rivers, of the New World, and Their Interviews with the Savage Tribes, Two Hundred Years Ago" by John S. C. Abbott

Usage in poetry
"Happy! Happy! Happy!"
When your life seems lone and long,
You will hear that feast's bells ringing
Far and faintly thro' my song.
"Night After The Picnic" by Abram Joseph Ryan Author object (8)
These are the joys he lets us know
In fields and villages below;
Gives us a relish of his love,
But keeps his noblest feast above.
"Hymn 77" by Isaac Watts Author object (310)
But they in murm'ring language said,
"Manna is all our feast;
We loathe this light, this airy bread;
We must have flesh to taste."
"Psalm 78 part 3" by Isaac Watts Author object (310)
Such is the world's gay garish feast,
In her first charming bowl
Infusing all that fires the breast,
And cheats the unstable soul.
"Second Sunday After Epiphany" by John Keble Author object (382)
And sinless Mirth, from care released,
Behold, unawed, thy mirrored sky,
Smiling as smiled on Cana's feast
The Master's loving eye.
"Kenoza Lake" by John Greenleaf Whittier Author object (377)
There the wild sweet folly
Didst them, the sad zest,
Shake of thy holy passion, Melancholy,
To glut thee on the shadowy soft feast.
"Heavenly Sorrow" by Manmohan Ghose