festal

How To Use festal In A Sentence

• All servile work was forbidden on this day holy to the Lord; and all over the house, and in the face of all the family, I observed a kind of festal air. The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
• The heaven in this poem is so far from being the incorporeal - the spiritual heaven of orthodox Christianity that you have an image of an actual orgy, the festal orgy raging under the thyrsus .
• Furthermore, in his discussion of the Ta series from Pylos, he observes that the inventorying of festal equipment fell under the purview of one of the most important scribes.
• Even from the island they could perceive that everything known as festal pleasure was rife in Alexandria, and bore along in its mad revelry the court and the citizens. Cleopatra — Volume 08
• a festive (or festal) occasion
• Here, from the London Oratory on Brompton Road is their festally decorated side altar of St. Philip Neri: St. Philip's Day from London and Birmingham
• Christian worship may be assumed to have been a matter of ritual from the start, because of its roots in Temple worship, common festal meals, and the baptismal practice of Jesus and John.
• Spring carry is the most scale collective on the world migrates, unique festal landscape.
• Their feasts were events of careful consideration and long preparation, and those whose memories carry them back to the early days, recall bounteous loading of tables when festal occasion called for display. Bohemian San Francisco Its restaurants and their most famous recipes—The elegant art of dining.
• In the congregation assembled for worship, these two movements meet, and the heavenly angels join the children of God in festal celebration.