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comessation

comessation noun: feasting, banqueting.

Noun

comessation (countable and uncountable, plural comessations)

  1. (historical, rare) Feasting, banqueting.
    • Is it a small benefit, that I am placed there […] where I see no drunken comessations, no rebellious routs, no violent oppressions, no obscene rejoicings, nor ought else that might either vex or affright my soul?1658, Joseph Hall, The Devout Soul, Or, Rules of Heavenly Devotion Also the Free Prisoner, Or, the Comfort of Restraint
    • Most essays deal with literary sources, but food symbolism for Saint Catherine of Siena (Luce d’Eramo), famine in chronicles (Corinne Lucas), and depictions of sacred and profane comessation in sixteenth-century art (Hélène Albani) add variety to the mix.2001 spring, Joseph Byrne, “Sabine Eiche, ed., Ordine et officij de casa de lo Illustrissimo Signor Duca de Urbino […]”, in Margaret L. King, editor, Renaissance Quarterly, volume LIV, number 1, New...

Forms of comessation

pluralcomessations

Origin of comessation

From Middle English comessacoun, comessacyoun, commessacion, commessacioun, from Middle French comessacion and its etymon Latin cōmessātiō, cōmissātiō.

Questions about comessation

What does comessation mean?
Comessation means feasting, banqueting.
What part of speech is comessation?
Comessation is a noun.
What is the plural of comessation?
The plural of comessation is comessations.

Words near comessation in the dictionary

  1. comes with the turf
  2. comes Yorkshire over
  3. comeslut
  4. comesluts
  5. comess
  6. comessation
  7. comessations
  8. comest
  9. comest from
  10. comestibility
  11. comestible

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