Section F, G and H

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"Section F, G and H"

[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.]
1. A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more
commonly, a joyous, anniversary.

The seventh day shall be a feast to the
Lord.

Ex. xiii. 6.

Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the
feast of the passover.

Luke ii. 41.

&fist; Ecclesiastical feasts are called immovable
when they always occur on the same day of the year; otherwise they
are called movable.

2. 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.

Old Proverb.

Belshazzar the King made a great feast to a
thousand of his lords.

Dan. v. 1.

3.

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