afterfeast

English

Etymology

after- +‎ feast

Noun

afterfeast (plural afterfeasts)

  1. A lesser religious festival that follows another more significant festival.
    Synonym: postfeast
    Antonym: forefeast
    • 2016, Leslie Brubaker, Mary B. Cunningham, The Cult of the Mother of God in Byzantium: Texts and Images:
      The typikon of the Evergetis monastery, on the other hand, lists a forefeast and two afterfeasts; […]
    • 2016, Carolyn L. Connor, Saints and Spectacle, page 144:
      Liturgical ceremonies of special splendor were enacted not only on feast days but also on the forefeasts and afterfeasts of these events, as seen in the Book of Ceremonies and Typikon of the Great Church.
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