also: あえ
noun
feast; banquet; entertaining guests
Archaic noun for hosting a feast or treating someone to food and drink. In modern Japanese, this concept is expressed with words like 饗宴 (きょうえん) or もてなし.
古い文献では、王が臣下を饗したと記されている。
In old documents, it is recorded that the king feasted his retainers.
「饗」は、現代ではほとんど使われない漢字だ。
The kanji 饗 is hardly used in modern times.
Alternate reading; also archaic and rarely encountered.
The kanji 饗 has historically been used to mean a feast or banquet. The reading きょう is the on'yomi, and あえ is a rare kun'yomi. The word itself is archaic and its exact derivation is uncertain.