Meanings
- obsoleteuncountableBanqueting.
Now I cannott lett you go without putting you in mynd what I said the last day in the Bancketting House at Whitehall.
1641 The Heads of the Kings Speech concerning Lord Stafford. (Quoted in Report of the Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, Volume 10, Issue 6, page 140. HMSO. (1887)) - obsoleteuncountableOverindulgence, debauchery, or riotous behaviour.
9 April 1550 A Sermon preached at Pauls Crosse, the xiiii. day of December,Thomas Lever, Publisher: John Daie and William Seres. …waste at greye gaming, glotonous bancketting, and suche riote,…
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1563 Romans 13:12 given in Common Places of Christian Religion, Wolfgang Musculus trans. John Man (1512-1569), pub R. Wolfe, London The nyghte is paste, and the Daye is come on, let us therfore cast of the workes of darknes, & put one the armoure of lyght, & let us walke honestely, as in the day time, not in bancketting and dronkennes, in chambrynge and wontonnes.
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