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Fessitude
(Fes"si*tude) n. [L. fessus wearied, fatigued.] Weariness. [Obs.] Bailey.
Fesswise
(Fess"wise) adv. In the manner of fess.
Fest
(Fest) n. [See Fist.] The fist. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Fest
(Fest, Fes"te) n. A feast. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Festal
(Fes"tal) a. [L. festum holiday, feast. See feast.] Of or pertaining to a holiday or a feast; joyous; festive.
You bless with choicer wine the festal day.
Francis. Festally
(Fes"tal*ly), adv. Joyously; festively; mirthfully.
Festennine
(Fes"ten*nine) n. A fescennine.
Fester
(Fes"ter) v. i. [imp. & p. p. Festered ; p. pr. & vb. n. Festering.] [OE. festern, fr. fester,
n.; or fr. OF. festrir, fr. festre, n. See Fester, n.]
1. To generate pus; to become imflamed and suppurate; as, a sore or a wound festers.
Wounds immedicable
Rankle, and fester, and gangrene.
Milton.
Unkindness may give a wound that shall bleed and smart, but it is treachery that makes it fester.
South.
Hatred . . . festered in the hearts of the children of the soil.
Macaulay. 2. To be inflamed; to grow virulent, or malignant; to grow in intensity; to rankle.
Fester
(Fes`ter), v. t. To cause to fester or rankle.
For which I burnt in inward, swelt'ring hate,
And festered ranking malice in my breast.
Marston. Fester
(Fes"ter), n. [OF. festre, L. fistula a sort of ulcer. Cf. Fistula.]
1. A small sore which becomes inflamed and discharges corrupt matter; a pustule.
2. A festering or rankling.
The fester of the chain their necks.
I. Taylor. Festerment
(Fes"ter*ment) n. A festering. [R.] Chalmers.
Festeye
(Fest"eye) v. t. [OF. festier, festeer, F. festoyer.] To feast; to entertain. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Festinate
(Fes"ti*nate) a. [L. festinatus, p. p. of festinare to hasten.] Hasty; hurried. [Obs.] — Fes"ti*nate*ly,
adv. [Obs.] Shak.
Festination
(Fes`ti*na"tion) n. [L. festinatio.] Haste; hurry. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
Festival
(Fes"ti*val) a. [OF. festival, fr. L. festivum festive jollity, fr. festivus festive, gay. See Festive.]
Pertaining to a fest; festive; festal; appropriate to a festival; joyous; mirthful.
I cannot woo in festival terms.
Shak. Festi-val
(Fes"ti-val), n. A time of feasting or celebration; an anniversary day of joy, civil or religious.
The morning trumpets festival proclaimed.
Milton.
