a. Obs. [f. L. festum FEAST + -UAL, after spiritual, etc.] Festival, festal.
1500–20. Dunbar, Poems, ix. 83. To keipe the festuall and the fasting day.
1513. Douglas, Æneis, IV. viii. 107. With … festuall burgeonis arrayit.
1546. Langley, Pol. Verg. De Invent., II. iv. 42 a. Their festuall dayes.
1616. Sir W. Alexander, Poem, in Drummond’s Wks. (1711), 150.
| Then happy Day, to which by Heaven’s Decree | |
| (As consecrated) Festual Pomp is due. |
1637. Gillespie, Eng.-Pop. Cerem., III. ii. 22. It is not necessary to keep any festuall day, nor to kneel at all in the act of receiving the communion.
