repast Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the food served and eaten at one time
    meal.

WordNet


Re*past" noun
Etymology
OF. repast, F. repas, LL. repastus, fr. L. repascere to feed again; pref. re- re- + pascere, pastum, to pasture, feed. See Pasture.
Definitions
  1. The act of taking food.
    From dance to sweet repast they turn. Milton.
  2. That which is taken as food; a meal; figuratively, any refreshment. "Sleep . . . thy best repast." Denham.
    Go and get me some repast. Shak.
Re*past" transitive verb & intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To supply food to; to feast; to take food. Obs. "Repast them with my blood." Shak.
    He then, also, as before, left arbitrary the dieting and repasting of our minds. Milton.

Webster 1913