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antepast

noun

Etymology

From ante- + Latin pastus (“pasture, food”). Compare repast and Italian antipasto.

  1. derived from antipasto
  2. derived from pastus — “pasture, food”

Definitions

  1. A foretaste.

    • 1664-1667, Jeremy Taylor, Dissuasive from Popery antepasts of joy and comforts
    • this antepast of heaven
    • antepasts of endless blessedness

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for antepast. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA