comessation means feasting, banqueting. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Why “comessation” is a great word
COMESSATION — [Noun] A riotous feast or bout of intemperate gluttony and drinking. From Middle English comessacoun, from Middle French comessacion, from Latin cōmessātiōn-, cōmissātiō ("a revel, carousal"), from cōmessārī, a variant of cōmissārī ("to revel, carouse"). First attested in English c. a1425. Unlike a "banquet" (which implies ceremony and order) or "revelry" (which suggests general merrymaking), comessation is a specific, communal surrender to excess. It is the torchlit hall sticky with spilled wine, the greasy bones flung to the rushes, the collective, roaring descent from satiety into stupor—a fleeting monument to the belief that enough is a myth.
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- Feasting, banqueting.“Is it a small benefit, that I am placed there […] where I see no drunken comessations, no rebellious routs, no violent oppressions, no obscene rejoicings, nor ought else that might either vex or affright my soul?”