What's the difference between feast and festal?

Feast


Definition:

  • (n.) A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary.
  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) That which is partaken of, or shared in, with delight; something highly agreeable; entertainment.
  • (n.) To eat sumptuously; to dine or sup on rich provisions, particularly in large companies, and on public festivals.
  • (n.) To be highly gratified or delighted.
  • (v. t.) To entertain with sumptuous provisions; to treat at the table bountifully; as, he was feasted by the king.
  • (v. t.) To delight; to gratify; as, to feast the soul.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Foggy feast Well done Carl Fogarty, the most successful world superbike racing champion ever, now known to a new generation as the winner of I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here .
  • (2) If eating is solely about nourishment then the feast in which the vast majority of us will participate on 25 December is equally an outrage.
  • (3) Perhaps the number of complaints an ombudsman receives is a function of the number of ambulance-chasing claims companies that are able to feast on a 25% – 40% cut of the winnings.
  • (4) A spectacular fall from grace on the pitch – from first to seventh, playing dour football that is anathema to fans who feasted on success throughout the Ferguson era – will also lead to renewed scrutiny of the club's controversial US owners, the Glazer family , away from it.
  • (5) The movie excels in its many trading-floor sequences, great chaotic indoor crowd-scenes worthy of Raoul Walsh, in which we can glimpse the primal, quasi-animalistic governing urges that propel an unregulated – that's to say, totally lawless – free-market economy, as the hawks are granted licence to feast upon the sparrows.
  • (6) Later that day, over dinner in a private Catalan castle, I am sitting opposite Hollywood's Heather Graham and Jason Silva, her film-producer boyfriend, who have also flown in for the feast, watching as the star of Boogie Nights and The Hangover delicately transfers her food from her plate to her partner's.
  • (7) After saying his prayer, Sadaullah, was entering the room where the other guests had already taken their place for the evening feast when the missile hit.
  • (8) Another certifier, Mohamed El-Mouelhy, said the significance of the feast day was akin to that of Christmas for Christians.
  • (9) The Great Beauty is intentionally overwhelming; its feast of riches borderline nauseating.
  • (10) His offices released statements about meetings with cabinet ministers to discuss issues such as the availability of basic food items during Ramadan when Muslims feast on food after a day of dawn-to-dusk fasting.
  • (11) A six-piece band comprising of Win Butler, Will Butler, Régine Chassagne, Tim Kingsbury, Jeremy Gara and Richard Reed Parry, as well as a moveable feast of other players, over the past nine years and two more albums – Neon Bible (2006) and The Suburbs (2010) – they have built a reputation for both the intrigue and intelligence of their songwriting, as well as for live shows that can seem ecstatic, desperate and electric all at once.
  • (12) The €31.5bn aid tranche has become "a bit of a moveable feast", Helena says.
  • (13) Graham Linehan , when we meet as the others grab sandwiches, is flustered from traffic but more so, I suspect, from, at the moment, being the ghost at the feast.
  • (14) A time when we remember a feast, the first Thanksgiving, on Plymouth plantation in the autumn of 1621.
  • (15) Let other 2014 commemorations of war dwell on reconciliation or shrink from triumphalism: next summer, visitors to Bannockburn's Live will enjoy a feast of martial entertainments, including, says Visit Scotland , "a spectacular re-enactment of this iconic battle close to the original site".
  • (16) "The text that is currently on the table contains 200 pages with a feast of alternatives and a forest of square brackets," he said.
  • (17) The wood-clad dining room serves four-course feasts and a decent children's menu (with free food for under-fours).
  • (18) During the last feast, Mustafa generously took the time to prepare over 30 plates of pastries for his fellow detainees.
  • (19) Three-course gourmet vegetarian feasts include local organic wines.
  • (20) It was somehow fitting that the day the US and Cuba announced the end of decades of hostilities was also the feast of San Lazaro, or St Lazarus – the biblical figure who rose from the dead.

Festal


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a holiday or a feast; joyous; festive.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The preparations with the highest lipase activities were llozyme, 3600, Kuzyme HP, 2330, Festal, 2073, Cotazym, 2014, and Viokase, 1636 units.
  • (2) By its lipolytic action nigedase is more active than festal.

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