comessation

plural comessations

1. countablehistoricalrareuncountableFeasting, banqueting.

   Is it a small benefit, that I am placed there […] where I see no drunken comessations, no rebellious routs, no violent oppressions, no obscene rejoicings, nor ought else that might either vex or affright my soul?

   1658, Joseph Hall, The Devout Soul, Or, Rules of Heavenly Devotion Also the Free Prisoner, Or, the Comfort of Restraint

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   Most essays deal with literary sources, but food symbolism for Saint Catherine of Siena (Luce d’Eramo), famine in chronicles (Corinne Lucas), and depictions of sacred and profane comessation in sixteenth-century art (Hélène Albani) add variety to the mix.

   2001 spring, Joseph Byrne, “Sabine Eiche, ed., Ordine et officij de casa de lo Illustrissimo Signor Duca de Urbino […]”, in Margaret L. King, editor, Renaissance Quarterly, volume LIV, number 1, New York, N.Y.: Renaissance Society of America, →ISSN, →OCLC, Reviews, page 266