a. (UN-1 7.)
1834. Lytton, Pompeii, II. xiv. From delicacy to her grief, he laid not aside his dark and unfestive robes.
1844. Thackeray, Greenwich Whitebait, Wks. 1899, XIII. 615. Sudden gusts of genius unknown in the quiet unfestive state.
1896. Hiram Corson, Selections from Chaucer’s Canterbury tales, gloss., 272. Unfeestlich, unfestive, unfit for a feast, jaded.
