repast
English
Etymology
Old French repast, from the verb repaistre, from Latin repascere, from pascere (“to graze”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈpɑːst/
- (US, Northern England) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈpæst/
Noun
repast (countable and uncountable, plural repasts)
- (now literary) A meal.
- (Can we date this quote?) John Milton
- From dance to sweet repast they turn.
- 1908, Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
- When at last they were thoroughly toasted, the Badger summoned them to the table, where he had been busy laying a repast.
- 2010, Pseudonymous Bosch, This Isn't What It Looks Like
- "'Tis true, tonight I ate my last of the royal repast."
- (Can we date this quote?) John Milton
- (archaic, uncountable) The food eaten at a meal.
- (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare
- Go and get me some repast.
- (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare
Translations
Verb
repast (third-person singular simple present repasts, present participle repasting, simple past and past participle repasted)
- (obsolete, transitive) To supply food to; to feast.
- (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare
- Repast them with my blood.
- (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare
- (obsolete, intransitive) To take food.
- (Can we date this quote?) John Milton
- He then, also, as before, left arbitrary the dieting and repasting of our minds.
- (Can we date this quote?) John Milton
Old French
Noun
repast m (oblique plural repaz or repatz, nominative singular repaz or repatz, nominative plural repast)
- a meal
- circa 1170, Wace, Le Roman de Rou:
- Mez li Dus ne vout prendre ne disner ne repast.
- But the Duke didn't want to eat dinner or any other meal.
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