Junketing
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A celebratory feast or banquet.
"Which things though not so substantially performed, are notwithstanding in some measure imitated by Witches and Magicians, I mean in their junketings; whose viands are observed to afford so little satisfaction to nature, that they leave oftentimes the partakers of them as weak and faint almost as if they had eaten nothing […]"
- 2 taking an excursion for pleasure wordnet
- 1 present participle and gerund of junket form-of, gerund, participle, present
Example
More examples"Which things though not so substantially performed, are notwithstanding in some measure imitated by Witches and Magicians, I mean in their junketings; whose viands are observed to afford so little satisfaction to nature, that they leave oftentimes the partakers of them as weak and faint almost as if they had eaten nothing […]"
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