Comessation
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Comessation is a noun meaning (now historical and somewhat rare) Feasting, banqueting.
Meaning
(now historical and somewhat rare) Feasting, banqueting.
Example Sentences
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?
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.
Word Forms
- comessations
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include rejoicement, communing, commoration, revel, concoction, excommunion.
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