Sekirov Dictionary

repast

UK /ɹɪˈpɑːst/US /ɹɪˈpæst/

noun 5
verb 4
forms 4

noun5

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(literary) A meal.
- After evening repast, till bed time their thoughts will be best taken up in the easie grounds of Religion, and the story of Scripture. — 1644
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(no longer used) Food or drink that may be consumed as a meal.
- I prethee go, and get me some repast, / I care not what, so it be holsome foode. — 1590
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(figurative, no longer used) Something that is intellectually or spiritually nourishing.
- For nought he car'd his carcas long vnfed; / His mind was full of spirituall repast, / And pyn'd his flesh, to keepe his body low and chast. — 1590
(no longer used) A period of refreshment or rest.
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(no longer used) The consumption of food; also, refreshment obtained from eating; (generally) refreshment; rest.
- Forthwith he runnes with feigned faithfull hast / Vnto his guest, who after troublous sights / And dreames gan now to take more sound repast, […] — 1590

verb4

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(no longer used) To supply (an animal or person) with food; to feed.
- To his good friends thus wide I'le ope my armes, / And like the kind life-rendring Pelican, / Repast them with my blood. — 1599
(figurative, no longer used) To provide (a person) with intellectual or spiritual nourishment; to enlighten, to feed.
[with oneself] (no longer used) To refresh (oneself or someone) through eating and drinking.
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(no longer used) Usually followed by on or upon: to take food and drink; to feast, to feed.
- And now they reach'd the naval Walls, and found / The Guards repasting, while the Bowls go round; […] — 1720

forms

repasted · repasting · repasteth · repasts

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