Meaning of REPAST
| Pronunciation: | | ri'past
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| | Definition: | | [n] the food served and eaten at one time |
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| | Synonyms: | | meal |
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| | See Also: | | afternoon tea, aliment, alimentation, banquet, bite, breakfast, brunch, buffet, collation, course, dejeuner, dinner, dish, feast, helping, lunch, luncheon, mess, nosh, nosh-up, nourishment, nutriment, nutrition, picnic, ploughman's lunch, portion, potluck, refection, sandwich, serving, side dish, snack, square meal, supper, sustenance, tea, teatime, tiffin, victuals | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\Re*past"\ (r?-p?st"), n. [OF. repast, F. repas, LL.
repastus, fr. L. repascere to feed again; pref. re- re- +
pascere, pastum, to pasture, feed. See {Pasture}.]
1. The act of taking food.
From dance to sweet repast they turn. --Milton.
2. That which is taken as food; a meal; figuratively, any
refreshment. ``Sleep . . . thy best repast.'' --Denham.
Go and get me some repast. --Shak.
\Re*past"\, v. t. & i.
To supply food to; to feast; to take food. [Obs.] ``Repast
them with my blood.'' --Shak.
He then, also, as before, left arbitrary the dieting
and repasting of our minds. --Milton.
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