festivous
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
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Adjective[edit]
festivous (comparative more festivous, superlative most festivous)
- (obsolete) Pertaining to a feast; festive.
- 1818 July 25, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volumes (please specify |volume=I, II, III, or IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC:
- If thou hast chuckled over their facetious and festivous descriptions […]
References[edit]
- “festivous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.