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Word Meanings - FESTAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to a holiday or a feast; joyous; festive. You bless with choicer wine the festal day. Francis.

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  • SOCIALIST; SOCIALISTIC
    Pertaining to, or of the nature of, socialism.
  • JOVIALITY
    The quality or state of being jovial. Sir T. Herbert.
  • CONVIVIALIST
    A person of convivial habits.
  • JOVIALTY
    Joviality. Barrow.
  • FESTIVE
    Pertaining to, or becoming, a feast; festal; joyous; gay; mirthful; sportive. -- Fes"tive*ly, adv. The glad circle round them yield their souls To festive mirth and wit that knows no gall. Thomson.
  • SOCIALIZE
    1. To render social. 2. To subject to, or regulate by, socialism.
  • SOCIALITY
    The quality of being social; socialness.
  • JOVIALIST
    One who lives a jovial life. Bp. Hall.
  • JOVIALNESS
    Noisy mirth; joviality. Hewyt.
  • JOVIAL
    planet Jupiter was thought to make those born under it joyful or 1. Of or pertaining to the god, or the planet, Jupiter. Our jovial star reigned at his birth. Shak. The fixed stars astrologically differenced by the planets, and esteemed Martial
  • SOCIAL
    Naturally growing in groups or masses; -- said of many individual plants of the same species. Living in communities consisting of males, females, and neuters, as do ants and most bees. Forming compound groups or colonies by budding from
  • JOLLY
    jolif, joyful, merry, F. joli pretty; of Scand. origin, akin to E. 1. Full of life and mirth; jovial; joyous; merry; mirthful. Like a jolly troop of huntsmen. Shak. "A jolly place," said he, "in times of old! But something ails it now: the spot
  • SOCIALLY
    In a social manner; sociably.
  • SOCIALNESS
    The quality or state of being social.
  • SOCIALISM
    A theory or system of social reform which contemplates a complete reconstruction of society, with a more just and equitable distribution of property and labor. In popular usage, the term is often employed to indicate any lawless, revolutionary
  • JOLLY-BOAT
    A boat of medium size belonging to a ship.
  • CONVIVIAL
    Of or relating to a feast or entertainment, or to eating and drinking, with accompanying festivity; festive; social; gay; jovial. Which feasts convivial meetings we did name. Denham.
  • FESTAL
    Of or pertaining to a holiday or a feast; joyous; festive. You bless with choicer wine the festal day. Francis.
  • HOSPITABLE
    1. Receiving and entertaining strangers or guests with kindness and without reward; kind to strangers and guests; characterized by hospitality. Shak. 2. Proceeding from or indicating kindness and generosity to guests and strangers; as, hospitable
  • JOLLYHEAD
    Jollity. Spenser.
  • STATE SOCIALISM
    A form of socialism, esp. advocated in Germany, which, while retaining the right of private property and the institution of the family and other features of the present form of the state, would intervene by various measures intended to
  • INHOSPITABLE
    1. Not hospitable; not disposed to show hospitality to strangers or guests; as, an inhospitable person or people. Have you no touch of pity, that the poor Stand starved at your inhospitable door Cowper. 2. Affording no shelter or sustenance;
  • DISSOCIAL
    Unfriendly to society; contracted; selfish; as, dissocial feelings.
  • CHRISTIAN SOCIALISM
    Any theory or system that aims to combine the teachings of Christ with the teachings of socialism in their applications to life; Christianized socialism; esp., the principles of this nature advocated by F. D. Maurice, Charles Kingsley, and others
  • INTERSOCIAL
    Pertaining to the mutual intercourse or relations of persons in society; social.

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