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** English
*** Etymology
[en] From [en], from [en].
*** Adjective
[en-adj]
1. festive , relating to a festival or feast
2. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1905 | author=w:O. Henry | title=s:Telemachus, Friend
|passage=His wife had decorated it all up with hollyhocks and poison ivy, and
it looked real FESTAL and bowery.}}
1. * [1=en]
2. * {{ quote-book
|en |year=1952 |author=[Norman Lewis (author)] |title=Golden Earth |section=
|passage= Amidst this fetor the Burmese masses live their FESTAL and
contemplative existences.}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=2010 | month=January | author=David Brakke | chapter= A New Fragment of Athanasius’s Thirty-Ninth _FESTAL Letter_ : Heresy, Apocrypha, and the Canon (see http://www.jstor.org/stable/40390061) | title=w:Harvard Theological Review | section=volume CIII, № 1, page 47
|passage=Athanasius of Alexandria’s thirty-ninth _FESTAL Letter_ remains one
of the most significant documents in the history of the Christian Bible.
Athanasius wrote the letter, which contains the first extant list of precisely
the twenty-seven books of the current New Testament canon, in 367
<small>C.E.</small>, during the final decade of his life.}}
**** Synonyms
- [en]
**** Derived terms
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*** Anagrams
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