feasts

  • 1feasts — Occasions of commemoration and religious thanksgiving [[➝ thanksgiving sacrifice]]. Regular days were set aside for Hebrews when they could relax and enjoy themselves with music and dancing. There were thanksgivings to God for blessings and for… …

    Dictionary of the Bible

  • 2Feasts —    or Festivals    Days set apart for the celebration of some great event connected with our Blessed Lord or His Saints, also called Holy Days. The rubric in the Communion Office requires that each Feast shall be announced to the congregation on… …

    American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  • 3feasts — Certain established festivals or holidays in the ecclesiastical calendar. These days were anciently used as the dates of legal instruments, and in England the quarter days, for paying rent, are four feast days. The terms of the courts, in England …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 4feasts — Certain established festivals or holidays in the ecclesiastical calendar. These days were anciently used as the dates of legal instruments, and in England the quarter days, for paying rent, are four feast days. The terms of the courts, in England …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 5feasts — Ecclesiastical festivals or holidays. Rent days and days for holding court were often fixed by reference to these feasts …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 6Feasts of the Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary —     Feasts of the Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Feasts of the Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary     There are two such days:     ♦ Friday before Palm Sunday, major double;     ♦ third Sunday in… …

    Catholic encyclopedia

  • 7Feasts, Ecclesiastical — • Feast Days, or Holy Days, are days which are celebrated in commemoration of the sacred mysteries and events recorded in the history of our redemption, in memory of the Virgin Mother of Christ, or of His apostles, martyrs, and saints, by special …

    Catholic encyclopedia

  • 8Feasts (Immovable) — Feasts and holidays of the church which always occur on the same date, as Christmas and Epiphany, Transfiguration etc …

    Dictionary of church terms

  • 9Feasts observed by the Coptic Church — These come under three chief headings: Weekly feast, i.e. Sundays. The weekly commemoration of the Resurrection, which falls on the first day of every week. Sundays have been kept by Christians from Apostolic times as days of worship, and in 321… …

    Dictionary of church terms

  • 10feasts — fɪːst n. banquet, huge meal, exceptionally delicious meal; something unusually pleasurable; holiday, religious festival v. eat plentifully; host a banquet; participate in banquet …

    English contemporary dictionary