Meanings
adjectivefestivous (comparative more festivous, superlative most festivous)
comparative more festivous · superlative most festivous
- obsoletePertaining to a feast; festive.
If thou hast chuckled over their facetious and festivous descriptions[…]
1818 July 25, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC
Origin
From Latin fēstīvus + -ous. By surface analysis, festive + -ous.
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Chicago
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