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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Junket

Jun′ket (jŭn̲′kĕt), n. [Formerly also juncate, fr. It. giuncata cream cheese, made in a wicker or rush basket, fr. L. juncus a rush. See 2d Junk, and cf. Juncate.]

1. A cheese cake; a sweetmeat; any delicate food.

How Faery Mab the junkets eat. Milton.

Victuals varied well in taste, And other junkets. Chapman.

2. A feast; an entertainment.

A new jaunt or junket every night. Thackeray.

Jun′ket, v. i. To feast; to banquet; to make an entertainment; — sometimes applied opprobriously to feasting by public officers at the public cost.

Job's children junketed and feasted together often. South.

Jun′ket, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Junketed; p. pr. & vb. n. Junketing.] To give entertainment to; to feast.

The good woman took my lodgings over my head, and was in such a hurry to junket her neighbors. Walpole.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty. Of the others, 1,362 (a word or a single letter each) were inferred by AI from the context by the dictionary’s own rules and are marked with a wavy underline (tap or point at one to see the note); the rest, which could not be inferred with confidence, are left as “?”.