(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.
Vestal
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Vesta, the virgin goddess of the hearth; hence, pure; chaste.
(a.) A virgin consecrated to Vesta, and to the service of watching the sacred fire, which was to be perpetually kept burning upon her altar.
(a.) A virgin; a woman pure and chaste; also, a nun.
Example Sentences:
(1) "And by then, I'll have all the suppressed prejudices of having spent four years as a vestal virgin."
(2) The ancient Greeks had Pythia, their Delphic Oracle; the Romans had their Vestal Virgins and, in Live and Let Die , Dr Kananga had his Solitaire.
(3) Despite the disintegration of their politics and economy, the Greeks can still muster a crew of vestal virgins to light and nurture the Olympic flame .
(4) Phytochemical examination of the fresh bulbs of Lilium speciosum forma vestale has led to the isolation of a new phenolic glycoside and a new steroidal saponin.
(5) The results of conventional agar dilution (Vestal, 1975) and a modified radiometric (BACTEC) method were compared.
(6) I've had to become a vestal virgin again after a not entirely pure political past."