also 6–7 banket. Pples. banqueted, -ing. [a. F. banquete-r, f. banquet; see prec.]
1. trans. To entertain at a banquet or banquets; to provide a banquet for, to feast, regale.
c. 1538. Lyndesay, Sqr. Meldrum, 854. They banketted him fra hand to hand.
1594. Nashe, Unfort. Trav., 32. Not a dogge … but shall bee banketted with Rhenish wine and sturgion.
a. 1797. H. Walpole, Mem. Geo. II., I. 370. Being banqueted much on the road.
c. 1840. Lytton, Devereux, VI. ii. As an oak banqueteth the destroying worm.
fig. 1676. D’Urfey, Mad. Fickle, V. i. (1677), 52. Happy the Man that takes delight In Banquetting the Sences.
2. intr. To take part in a banquet or banquets; to regale oneself; to feast, carouse. Const. on.
1514. Barclay, Cyt. & Uplondyshm., 30. To Baccus they banket.
1573. Tusser, Husb. (1878), 68. At Christmas we banket, the rich with the poore.
1725. Pope, Odyss., X. 662. A vulgar soul Born but to banquet, and to drain the bowl.
1855. Singleton, Virgil, I. 144. Ere that banquetted a godless race On butchered steers.
fig. 1588. Shaks., L. L. L., I. i. 25. The minde shall banquet, though the body pine.
1751. Johnson, Rambl., No. 162, ¶ 11. Thrasybulus had banqueted on flattery.
1857. Heavysege, Saul (1869), 172. To banquet on the sounds.
† 3. To take a BANQUET (in senses 2 and 3). Obs.
1564. P. Moore, Hope Health, II. ii. 22. Let them eschue … drinking or banquetting betwene meales.
c. 1800. Gifford, in Southey, Comm.-pl. Bk., Ser. II. (1849), 323. The common place of banqueting, or of eating the dessert.
