(a) A commemorative religious celebration; a church holy day or anniversary other than a fast, a church festival; holden, kepen, maken ~, observe a church festival; halwen, worshipen ~, celebrate a festival; (b) the date of a church festival (on which rents and other periodic payments were made by custom or agreement).

(a) feste dai, a Jewish or Christian feast day; (b) funeral ~, funeral ceremony or mass; (c) heigh ~, heigh ~ dai, an important or principal feast day; (d) in the names of classes of church festivals [Cp.Cant.& York 17 233-4, s.v. festum]: double feste, ~ fest dai, any festival of greater dignity than a feste simple; ~ of nin lessouns = double feste; ~ of thre lessouns = feste simple; ~ of twelve lessouns, a double feste (referring to Benedictine custom); half double ~; principal ~, a festival of the highest dignity, as Christmas, Easter, Whitsunday; feste simple, an ordinary saint's day or a festival of equivalent dignity; (e) in the names of particular festivals: ester feste, ~ (of) paske, ~ of Seint Michel, ~ of tabernacles, ~ of the circumcisioun, ~ of the sondai, etc.

(a) A secular celebration with feasting and entertainment (often held on church holidays); feast, banquet; at feste; feste dai, ~ time; (b) a festive company; bi festes, in groups; (c) feste calf; ~ cloth, festive dress; ~ hous, banquet hall; ~ maker, one who prepares or gives a banquet.

(a) Any enjoyable occasion or event; what one enjoys or relishes, feast (for the ears); sori feste, a sad thing; (b) rejoicing, joy; maken feste, make merry; (c) feste of lif; ~ everlasting, etc., the eternal joys of heaven; (d) Luciferes ~, wormes ~, the torments of hell, destruction.

maken feste, treat (someone) with due ceremony or respect, treat respectfully or in friendly fashion; pay homage, show respect, pay compliments.