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† ˈfestual, a. Obs.
[f. L. festum feast + -ual, after spiritual, etc.]
Festival, festal.
1500–20Dunbar Poems ix. 83 To keipe the festuall and the fasting day. 1513Douglas æneis iv. viii. 107 With..festuall burgeonis arrayit. 1546Langley Pol. Verg. De Invent. ii. iv. 42 a, Their festuall dayes. 1616Sir W. Alexander Poem in Drummond's Wks. (1711) 150 Happy Day, to which..(the consecrated) Festual Pomp is due. 1637Gillespie Eng. Pop. Cerem. iii. ii. 22 It is not necessary to keep any festuall day. 1864J. A. Symonds Let. 23 Jan. (1967) I. 437 A sound of tragic pipe & festual sonorous verse & rapt oration in the porches of the gods. |