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• immovable feast — Feast Feast (f[=e]st), n. [OE. feste festival, holiday, feast, OF. feste festival, F. f[^e]te, fr. L. festum, pl. festa, fr. festus joyful, festal; of uncertain origin. Cf. {Fair}, n., {Festal}, {F[^e]te}.] 1. A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• immovable feast — noun : an ecclesiastical feast that always occurs on the same day of the year …   Useful english dictionary

• Feast — (f[=e]st), n. [OE. feste festival, holiday, feast, OF. feste festival, F. f[^e]te, fr. L. festum, pl. festa, fr. festus joyful, festal; of uncertain origin. Cf. {Fair}, n., {Festal}, {F[^e]te}.] 1. A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Feast day — Feast Feast (f[=e]st), n. [OE. feste festival, holiday, feast, OF. feste festival, F. f[^e]te, fr. L. festum, pl. festa, fr. festus joyful, festal; of uncertain origin. Cf. {Fair}, n., {Festal}, {F[^e]te}.] 1. A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• immovable — adj. & n. (also immoveable) adj. 1 that cannot be moved. 2 steadfast, unyielding. 3 emotionless. 4 not subject to change (immovable law). 5 motionless. 6 Law (of property) consisting of land, houses, etc. n. (in pl.) Law immovable property.… …   Useful english dictionary

• immovable — immovability, immovableness, n. immovably, adv. /i mooh veuh beuhl/, adj. 1. incapable of being moved; fixed; stationary. 2. incapable of being influenced by feeling; emotionless: an immovable heart; an immovable tyrant. 3. incapable of being… …   Universalium

• immovable — /ɪˈmuvəbəl / (say i moohvuhbuhl) adjective 1. incapable of being moved; fixed; stationary. 2. not subject to change; unalterable. 3. incapable of being affected with feeling; emotionless: an immovable heart; an immovable face. 4. incapable of… …  

• immovable — im•mov•a•ble or im•move•a•ble [[t]ɪˈmu və bəl[/t]] adj. 1) incapable of being moved 2) unaffected by feeling: an immovable heart[/ex] 3) implacable; unyielding 4) motionless 5) not changing from one date to another in different years: Christmas… …   From formal English to slang

• movable feast — Feast Feast (f[=e]st), n. [OE. feste festival, holiday, feast, OF. feste festival, F. f[^e]te, fr. L. festum, pl. festa, fr. festus joyful, festal; of uncertain origin. Cf. {Fair}, n., {Festal}, {F[^e]te}.] 1. A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Immovable Feasts —    Those Feasts of the Church which always occur on the same date such as Christmas Day, Feast of the Epiphany, etc. As some of the Feasts, such as Ascension Day, Whitsun Day, etc., are movable depending on the time Easter is kept. Tables and… …   American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia

• movable feast — noun a day of note, frequently Christian, the date of which moves from year to year according to a set of rules. Ant: fixed feast, immovable feast …   Wiktionary