Word Meanings - REGALEMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of regaling; anything which regales; refreshment; entertainment.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of REGALEMENT)

• Banquet
• Feast
• festivity
• treat
• entertainment
• festival
• carousal
• carouse
• regalement
• cheer

Related words: (words related to REGALEMENT)

• TREATMENT
  1. The act or manner of treating; management; manipulation; handling; usage; as, unkind treatment; medical treatment. 2. Entertainment; treat. Accept such treatment as a swain affords. Pope.
• CHEERINESS
  The state of being cheery.
• BANQUETTE
  A raised way or foot bank, running along the inside of a parapet, on which musketeers stand to fire upon the enemy.
• FEAST
  festival, F. fête, fr. L. festum, pl. festa, fr. festus joyful, 1. A festival; a holiday; a solemn, or more commonly, a joyous, anniversary. The seventh day shall be a feast to the Lord. Ex. xiii. 6. Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year
• CHEERISNESS
  Cheerfulness. There is no Christian duty that is not to be seasoned and set off with cheerishness. Milton.
• CHEERINGLY
  In a manner to cheer or encourage.
• CHEERER
  One who cheers; one who, or that which, gladdens. "Thou cheerer of our days." Wotton. "Prime cheerer, light." Thomson.
• TREATABLY
  In a treatable manner.
• BANQUET
  banchetto, dim. of banco a bench, counter. See Bank a bench, and cf. 1. A feast; a sumptuous entertainment of eating and drinking; often, a complimentary or ceremonious feast, followed by speeches. 2. A dessert; a course of sweetmeats; a sweetmeat
• TREAT
  To care for medicinally or surgically; to manage in the use of remedies or appliances; as, to treat a disease, a wound, or a patient. 6. To subject to some action; to apply something to; as, to treat a substance with sulphuric acid. Ure.
• TREATER
  One who treats; one who handles, or discourses on, a subject; also, one who entertains.
• CHEER
  chère, fr. LL. cara face, Gr. , L. cerebrum brain, G. hirn, and E. 1. The face; the countenance or its expression. "Sweat of thy cheer." Wyclif. 2. Feeling; spirit; state of mind or heart. Be of good cheer. Matt. ix. 2. The parents . . . fled
• CHEERFULNESS
  Good spirits; a state of moderate joy or gayety; alacrity.
• BANQUETTER; BANQUETER
  One who banquets; one who feasts or makes feasts.
• CHEERLESS
  Without joy, gladness, or comfort. -- Cheer"less*ly, adv. -- Cheer"less*ness, n. My cheerful day is turned to cheerles night. Spenser. Syn. -- Gloomy; sad; comfortless; dispiriting; dicsconsolate; dejected; melancholy; forlorn.
• REGALEMENT
  The act of regaling; anything which regales; refreshment; entertainment.
• TREATURE
  Treatment. Fabyan.
• TREATABLE
  Manageable; tractable; hence, moderate; not violent. " A treatable disposition, a strong memory." R. Parr. A kind of treatable dissolution. Hooker. The heats or the colds of seasons are less treatable than with us. Sir W. Temple.
• CAROUSAL
  A jovial feast or festival; a drunken revel; a carouse. The swains were preparing for a carousal. Sterne. Syn. -- Banquet; revel; orgie; carouse. See Feast.
• ENTERTAINMENT
  1. The act of receiving as host, or of amusing, admitting, or cherishing; hospitable reception; also, reception or treatment, in general. The entertainment of Christ by faith. Baxter. The sincere entertainment and practice of the precepts of the
• UPCHEER
  To cheer up. Spenser.
• RETREATFUL
  Furnishing or serving as a retreat. "Our retreatful flood." Chapman.
• ENTREATY
  1. Treatment; reception; entertainment. B. Jonson. 2. The act of entreating or beseeching; urgent prayer; earnest petition; pressing solicitation. Fair entreaty, and sweet blandishment. Spenser. Syn. -- Solicitation; request; suit; supplication;
• RETREATMENT
  The act of retreating; specifically, the Hegira. D'Urfey.
• MALTREATMENT
  Ill treatment; ill usage; abuse.
• ENTREATFUL
  Full of entreaty. See Intreatful.
• INTREAT
  See SPENSER
• BELLYCHEER
  Good cheer; viands. "Bellycheer and banquets." Rowlands. "Loaves and bellycheer." Milton.