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English
Adjective
bancketting (comparative more bancketting, superlative most bancketting)
Obsolete form of banqueting. Also banketting.
- Of or pertaining to banquets.
- 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))
- Now I cannott lett you go without putting you in mynd what I said the last day in the Bancketting House at Whitehall.
Noun
bancketting (plural banckettings)
- Overindulgence, debauchery, or riotous behaviour.
- 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.
- 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,…