REPAST

n. v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

The act of taking food. From dance to sweet repast they turn. Milton.

2.
n.

That which is taken as food; a meal; figuratively, any refreshment. "Sleep . . . thy best repast." Denham. Go and get me some repast. Shak.

3.
v.

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.

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