festivous

From Latin fēstīvus +‎ -ous.^[1] By surface analysis, festive +‎ -ous.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfɛstɪvəs/

festivous (comparative more festivous, superlative most festivous)

1. (obsolete) Pertaining to a feast; festive.
   • 1818 July 25, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of Mid-Lothian), volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Company, →OCLC:

     If thou hast chuckled over their facetious and festivous descriptions […]

• “festivous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.