repast
nounEtymology
From Middle English repast, repaste (“feast, meal; food, nourishment; the Eucharist; refreshment, rest”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman, Middle French, Old French repast, Middle French, Old French repas (“meal, repast; spiritual nourishment”) (modern French repas), probably from Medieval Latin, Late Latin repastus (“meal”), from repāstus, the perfect passive participle of repāscō (“to feed; to feed one after another”), from Latin re- (prefix meaning ‘again’) + pāscō (“to feed, nourish; to pasture (an animal); of an animal: to browse, graze; to maintain, support”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to protect; to shepherd”)).
Definitions
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.
- Forthwith from dance to ſweet repaſt they turn / Deſirous, all in Circles as they ſtood, / Tables are ſet, and on a ſudden pil'd / With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows: […]
- The Winter comes, and then the falling Maſt, / For greedy Swine, provides a full repaſt.
A period of refreshment or rest.
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.
- In honour therefore of the Sunne, and for ſuſtenance of his Chariot-beaſts, they carefully waſh the carkaſſes of their dead, and lay them forth in the night, for repaſt vnto the Tigres, wearied with their long and late iourney in the day.
- [T]hey return, and howle and gnaw / My Bowels, their repaſt; […]
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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.
- He ſucks intelligence in ev'ry clime, / And ſpreads the honey of his deep reſearch / At his return, a rich repaſt for me.
The consumption of food
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, […]
To supply (an animal or person) with food
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.
- The top-leaves and oldeſt would be gathered laſt of all, as being moſt proper to repaſt the worms with towards their laſt change.
To provide (a person) with intellectual or spiritual nourishment
To provide (a person) with intellectual or spiritual nourishment; to enlighten, to feed.
To refresh (oneself or someone) through eating and drinking.
Usually followed by on or upon
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; […]
- [O]n arrival of the dinner-hour, repasteth on domestic fare, (making especial mention of certain fishes, and concluding with cheese,) […]
The neighborhood
- neighborantepast
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at repast. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at repast. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at repast
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA