feasted
feasted is the simple past and past participle of feast.
Meaning of feast
Verb
feast (third-person singular simple present feasts, present participle feasting, simple past and past participle feasted)
- To partake in a feast, or large meal.
- I feasted on turkey and dumplings.
- To dwell upon (something) with delight.
- With my love's picture then my eye doth feast.1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 47”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC
- To hold a feast in honor of (someone).
- He that shall see this day, and live old age,
Will yearly on the vigil feast his neighbors
And say “Tomorrow is Saint Crispian.”1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount...
- He that shall see this day, and live old age,
- To serve as a feast for; to feed sumptuously.
- Or once a week, perhaps, for novelty / Reez'd bacon-soords shall feast his family.1597–1598, Joseph Hall, Virgidemiarum
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Questions about feasted
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- Feasted is the simple past and past participle of feast.
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