repast
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈpɑːst/
ipa: /-ˈpæst/
ipa: /ɹɪˈpæst/
ipa: /ɹə-/
rhymes: -ɑːst
rhymes: -æst
Forms: form: repasts
form: repasting
form: repasted
form: repasted
Etymology: Partly:
* from Middle English repasten (“(reflexive) to refresh (oneself) with food”) [and other forms], either from repast, repaste (“feast, meal; food, nourishment; the Eucharist; refreshment, rest”) + -en (suffix forming the infinitive forms of verbs); or from Late Latin repāstus, the perfect passive participle of repāscō (“to feed; to feed one after another”) (see further at etymology 1); and
* from repast (noun).
Senses: examples: text: To his good friends thus wide I'le ope my armes, / And like the kind life-rendring Pelican, / Repaſt them with my blood.
ref: c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, The Tragicall Historie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke: […] (Second Quarto), London: […] I[ames] R[oberts] for N[icholas] L[ing] […], published 1604, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene v]:
text: The top-leaves and oldeſt would be gathered laſt of all, as being moſt proper to repaſt the worms with towards their laſt change.
ref: 1670, John Evelyn, “. Chapter IX. Of the Mulberry.”, in Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesties Dominions. […], 2nd edition, London: […] Jo[hn] Martyn, and Ja[mes] Allestry, printers to the Royal Society, →OCLC, page 61:
glosses: To supply (an animal or person) with food; to feed.
glosses: To provide (a person) with intellectual or spiritual nourishment; to enlighten, to feed.
examples: text: [A]nd ſoo within a lytil whyle they came to that heremytage ⸝ and there they dranke the wyne ⸝ and ete the veneſon and the foules baken ⸝ And ſo whan they had repaſted hem wel ⸝ the dwarf retorned ageyn with his veſſel vn to the caſtel ageyne ⸝ […]
ref: [1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum xiv”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book VII (in Middle English), [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC, leaf 117, verso; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC, page 234, lines 25–29:
english: And so within a little while they came to that hermitage, and there they drank the wine, and ate the venison and the baked fowls. And so when they had repasted themselves well, the dwarf returned again with his vessel unto the castle again, […]
translation: And so within a little while they came to that hermitage, and there they drank the wine, and ate the venison and the baked fowls. And so when they had repasted themselves well, the dwarf returned again with his vessel unto the castle again, […]
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glosses: To refresh (oneself or someone) through eating and drinking.
examples: text: And now they reach'd the naval Walls, and found / The Guards repaſting, while the Bowls go round; […]
ref: 1720, Homer, translated by Alexander Pope, “Book XXIV”, in The Iliad of Homer, volume VI, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, page 170, lines 545–546:
text: [O]n arrival of the dinner-hour, repasteth on domestic fare, (making especial mention of certain fishes, and concluding with cheese,) […]
ref: 1842, “In Praise of Porter”, in Bentley’s Miscellany, volume XII, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, fytte the fourth, marginal note, page 346:
glosses: Usually followed by on or upon: to take food and drink; to feast, to feed.
Derived terms: word: repaster
word: repasting