[Welsh; lit. ‘session,’ f. eistedd to sit.] A congress of (Welsh) bards.
1822. Ann. Reg., I. Chron., 428. An Eisteddfodd, or Congress of Bards, was held … last week.
1847. National Cycl., II. 858. Since the time of Queen Elizabeth no royal commission has been issued for holding an eisteddfod.
Hence Eisteddfodism.
1868. Lond. Q. Rev., Oct., 53. That eisteddfodism by which Mr. M. Arnold seems to have been bitten.
