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repasteth

repasteth is the third-person singular simple present indicative of repast.

Meaning of repast

Verb

repast (third-person singular simple present repasts, present participle repasting, simple past and past participle repasted)

  1. (archaic, transitive) 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.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...
  2. (archaic, figuratively, transitive) To provide (a person) with intellectual or spiritual nourishment; to enlighten, to feed.
  3. (also, obsolete, reflexive, transitive) To refresh (oneself or someone) through eating and drinking.
    • [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 ⸝ […][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...
  4. (also, figuratively, intransitive, obsolete) 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; […]1720, Homer, “Book XXIV”, in Alexander Pope, transl., The Iliad of Homer, volume VI, London: […] W[illiam] Bowyer, for Bernard Lintott […], →OCLC, page 170, lines 545–546

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Words near repasteth in the dictionary

  1. repaste
  2. repasted
  3. repaster
  4. repasters
  5. repastes
  6. repasteth
  7. repasteurization
  8. repasteurize
  9. repasteurized
  10. repasteurizes
  11. repasteurizing

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