repast
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Old French repast, from the verb repaistre, from Latin repascere, from pascere (“to graze”).
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈpɑːst/
Audio (UK) (file)
- (US, Northern England) IPA(key): /ɹɪˈpæst/
Noun[edit]
repast (countable and uncountable, plural repasts)
- (now literary) A meal.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book 5”, in Paradise Lost. A Poem Written in Ten Books, London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554:
- 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."
- (archaic, uncountable) The food eaten at a meal.
- c. 1590–1592, William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene iii], page 223:
- I prethee go, and get me ſome repaſt, / I care not what, ſo it be holſome foode.
Translations[edit]
literary: a meal
Verb[edit]
repast (third-person singular simple present repasts, present participle repasting, simple past and past participle repasted)
- (obsolete, transitive) To supply food to; to feast.
- c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene v]:
- Repast them with my blood.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To take food.
- 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Vnlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], OCLC 879551664:
- He then, also, as before, left arbitrary the dieting and repasting of our minds.
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Old French[edit]
Noun[edit]
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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