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An event or community gathering, usually staged by a local community, which centers on some theme, sometimes on some unique aspect of the community.

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In mythology, a set of celebrations in the honour of a god.

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Pertaining to a feast or feast-day. (Now only as the noun used attributively.)

His festival is celebrated on the 8th of July.

A great religious festival is held here every twelfth year.

They're having a spring festival at the preschool and I'm taking the boys.

With the ice festival, things are pretty busy.

She eagerly informed the pair how she planned to attend tomorrow's ice festival activities, in search of first hand research for what was sure to be a winning chapter.

A great festival was in progress at Smyrna.

Music and dancing formed part of the festival rites.

From the 5th century onwards certain celebrated saints were honoured almost universally; St Augustine (Sermo, 276, § 4) says that the festival of St Vincent was celebrated throughout the whole of the Christian world.

Her festival falls on the 22nd of November.

Forty Shades of Blue is a textbook Sundance Film Festival favorite - all long lenses, grainy stock and arduously earnest indie angst.

Every year, the full moon in January is the Wolf Moon and there is a three day festival that all werewolves attend… kind of our high holiday.

The dissenting inhabitants of Samaria are naturally absent from such a festival.

Bellman, whose festival is held on the 26th of July.

To him the club entrusted the arrangement of the festival in honor of Bagration, for few men knew so well how to arrange a feast on an open-handed, hospitable scale, and still fewer men would be so well able and willing to make up out of their own resources what might be needed for the success of the fete.

One of the greater flamens was attached to the service of Quirinus, a second college of Salii founded in his honour, and a festival "Quirinalia" celebrated on the 17th of February, the day of the supposed translation of Romulus to heaven.

The ex-emperor Attalus danced at the marriage festival, which was celebrated with great pomp at Narbonne.

Their presence is typical of that of the whole people, and the private citizen is required to do no more on festival days than a ceremonial abstinence from work.

His return to Angostura was a sort of national festival.

Luke (the greatest festival is on the 8th of September).

The festival of St Andrew is held on the 30th of November.

This mountain, too, was the scene of the mystic rites of Dionysus, and the festival of the Daedala in honour of Hera.

By a bull of 1264 Urban made the festival, hitherto practically confined to the diocese of Liege, obligatory on the whole Church,' and a new office for the festival was written by Thomas Aquinas himself.

It is here that the great festival called the Magh mela is held.

Caravaca is dominated by the medieval castle of Santa Cruz, and contains several convents and a fine parish church, with a miraculous cross celebrated for its healing power, in honour of which a yearly festival is held on the 3rd of May.

The Christian festival which seems to have taken the place of these ceremonies is the Rogation or Gang week of the Roman Church.

Matuta had a temple in Rome in the Forum Boarium, where the festival of Matralia was celebrated on the 11th of June.

Tezcatlipoca was held to be the highest of these, and at the festival of all the gods his footsteps were expected to appear in the flour strewn to receive this sign of their coming.

For this they erected to him a sanctuary or altar near the Ilissus, and held a festival (Boreasmos) in his honour.

So far as the religious side of the festival was concerned, the Eleans had an unquestioned supremacy.

Spartan arms could punish any violation of that " sacred truce " which was indispensable if Hellenes from all cities were to have peaceable access to the Olympian festival.

This bouleuterium would have been available on all occasions when Olympia became the scene of conference or debate between the representatives of different states - whether the subject was properly political, as concerning the amphictyonic treaties, or related more directly to the administration of the sanctuary and festival.

At the annual festival of Apollo a criminal was obliged to plunge from the summit into the sea, where, however, an effort was made to pick him up; and it was by the same heroic leap that Sappho and Artemisia, daughter of Lygdamis, are said to have ended their lives.

The festival of these martyrs is celebrated on the 13th of October.

Scarcely more is to be said in favour of the suggestion made by Von Hammer; but better known in connexion with the name of Lagarde, who connects the name Purim with the old Zoroastrian festival of the dead, entitled Farwardigan.

This etymological connexion, suggested by Jensen (Kosmologie, 84), brings the festival of Purim into close relation with the Babylonian New Year festival known as Zagmuku, in which one of the most prominent ceremonials was the celebration of the assembly of the gods under the presidency of Marduk (Merodach) for the purpose of determining the fates of the New Year.

At the same time it is difficult to understand why Jews in Palestine and Egypt should have accepted a purely Persian or Babylonian festival long after they had ceased to be connected with the Persian Empire.

At the festival of Apollo at Leucas a victim flung himself from a rock into the sea, like the Hyperborean who was tired of life.

The commemorative festival of the Soteria, which the league established at Delphi, obtained recognition from many leading Greek states.

The annual festival, probably held on the 28th and 29th of Hecatombaeon (about the middle of August), consisted solely of the sacrifices and rites proper to this season in the cult of Athena.

The festival which had been beautified by Peisistratus was made still more imposing under the rule of Pericles.

He introduced a regular musical contest in place of the old recitations of the rhapsodes, which were an old standing accompaniment of the festival.

The season of the festival was the 24th to the 29th of Hecatombaeon, and the great day was the 28th.

Alaric was an Arian Christian who trusted to the sanctity of Easter for immunity from attack, and the enemies of Stilicho reproached him for having gained his victory by taking an unfair advantage of the great Christian festival.

An annual fair is held at Allahabad at the confluence of the streams on the occasion of the great bathing festival at the full moon of the Hindu month of Magh.

At Argos, his native place, during the festival of Athena, his shield was carried through the streets as a relic, together with the Palladium, and his statue was washed in the river Inachus.

Elijah is canonized both in the Greek and in the Latin Churches, his festival being kept in both on the 10th July - the date of his ascension in the nineteenth year of Jehoshaphat, according to Cornelius a Lapide.

His name is probably connected with the "triple ploughing" (Tpis, 7roXEiv), recommended in Hesiod's Works and Days and celebrated at an annual festival.

He was twenty-four years of age, and at the coronation festival, which was held at Aix-la-Chapelle, the dukes performed for the first time the nominally menial offices known as the arch-offices of the German kingdom.

A more authentic tradition represents Lysias as having spoken his own Olympiacus at the Olympic festival of 388 B.C., to which Dionysius I.

The Olympiacus (388 B.C.) is a brilliant fragment, expressing the spirit of the festival at Olympia, and exhorting Greeks to unite against their common foes.