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repasts

repasts is the plural of repast.

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

Meaning of repast

Noun

repast (countable and uncountable, plural repasts)

  1. (archaic, literary) 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.[1644], [John Milton], Of Education. To Master Samuel Hartlib, [London]: […] [Thomas Underhill and/or Thomas Johnson], →OCLC, page 4
    Synonyms:
    refection, meal, mese
  2. (obsolete) A period of refreshment or rest.
    • [T]he nobleſt Raptures have been conceiv'd in the Walks and ſhades of Trees, […] the Profound Philoſophers lov'd here to paſſe their lives in repoſe and Contemplation, and the frugal Repaſts—molleſque ſub arbore ſomni [a soft sleep under the tree] were the natural and chaſt delights of our...1670, John Evelyn, “. Chapter XXXV. An Historical Account of the Sacrednesse, and Use of Standing Groves, &c..”, in Sylva, or A Discourse of Forest-trees and the Propagation of Timber in His...
  3. (archaic) 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.c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
  4. (archaic, figuratively) 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.1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 48, page 148
    Synonyms:
    refection
  5. (obsolete) 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, […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 4, page 20
    Synonyms:
    refection

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Questions about repasts

What is repasts the plural of?
Repasts is the plural of repast.

Words near repasts in the dictionary

  1. repasteurized
  2. repasteurizes
  3. repasteurizing
  4. repastination
  5. repasting
  6. repasts
  7. repasture
  8. repastured
  9. repastures
  10. repasturing
  11. repat

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