repast

English[edit]

Old French repast, from the verb repaistre, from Latin repascere, from pascere (“to graze”).

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repast (countable and uncountable, plural repasts)

(now literary) A meal.
- (Can we date this quote by John Milton and provide title, author's full name, and other details?)
  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]:
  Go and get me some repast.

literary: a meal

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: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene v]:
  Repast them with my blood.
(obsolete, intransitive) To take food.
- (Can we date this quote by John Milton and provide title, author's full name, and other details?)
  He then, also, as before, left arbitrary the dieting and repasting of our minds.

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.