Definition of "festschrift" []

• A volume of learned articles or essays by colleagues and admirers, serving as a tribute or memorial especially to a scholar. (noun)

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• "Participants will examine Siegler's work and influence on the field in a traditional European "festschrift," in which a scholar's colleagues and trainees honor him with a discussion of his work-in this case, the intellectual contributions to clinical ethics and the study of the doctor-patient relationship."
• "My article is freely online, so you should read it and all of the other great pieces in that issue, which was a festschrift for Eugenie C."
• "To describe all the sordid details of what it took to get TWS to adopt a position on economic growth is beyond the scope of a festschrift (or maybe anything in print)."