Verb (used with object) : They banqueted the visiting prime minister in grand style. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used without object) : They banqueted on pheasant, wild boar, and three kinds of fish. From Dictionary.com.
And indeed, these royal cup-bearers are neat-handed at their task, mixing the bowl with infinite elegance, and pouring the wine into the beakers without spilling a drop, and when they hand the goblet they poise it deftly between thumb and finger for the banqueter to take. From Wordnik.com. [Cyropaedia] Reference
"'Scuse me!" says a thick-voiced banqueter in the hall. From Wordnik.com. [David Lockwin—The People's Idol] Reference
The glasses were emptied and a shout of applause rang from every banqueter save one. From Wordnik.com. [The Victim A romance of the Real Jefferson Davis] Reference
The men regard the newcomer with that look which is given to an uninvited banqueter whose appearance is not imposing. From Wordnik.com. [David Lockwin—The People's Idol] Reference
Wherefore if a man in the instant of his receiving be an unworthy banqueter, he cannot at that instant be made any other than he is. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2)] Reference
I must remark, Thrasymachus, if you will recall what was previously said, that although you began by defining the true physician in an exact sense, you did not observe a like exactness when speaking of the shepherd; you thought that the shepherd as a shepherd tends the sheep not with a view to their own good, but like a mere diner or banqueter with a view to the pleasures of the table; or, again, as. From Wordnik.com. [The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett] Reference
For I must remark, Thrasymachus, if you will recall what was previously said, that although you began by defining the true physician in an exact sense, you did not observe a like exactness when speaking of the shepherd; you thought that the shepherd as a shepherd tends the sheep not with a view to their own good, but like a mere diner or banqueter with a view to the pleasures of the table; or, again, as a trader for sale in the market, and not as a shepherd. From Wordnik.com. [The Republic of Plato] Reference
See one seated, a banqueter. From Wordnik.com. [Poems and Fragments] Reference
See one seated, a banqueter. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems and Fragments of Catullus] Reference
Even like a banqueter, depart the halls. From Wordnik.com. [On the Nature of Things] Reference
"Yet again, were the Nature of things suddenly to utter a voice, and thus with her own lips upbraid one of us, 'What ails thee so, O mortal, to let thyself loose in too feeble grievings? why weep and wail at death? for if thy past life and overspent has been sweet to thee, and all the good thereof has not, as if poured into a pierced vessel, run through and joylessly perished, why dost thou not retire like a banqueter filled with life, and calmly, O fool, take thy peaceful sleep?. From Wordnik.com. [Latin Literature] Reference
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