meal, repast
(noun) the food served and eaten at one time
Source: WordNet® 3.1
repast (countable and uncountable, plural repasts)
(now, literary) A meal.
(archaic, uncountable) The food eaten at a meal.
repast (third-person singular simple present repasts, present participle repasting, simple past and past participle repasted)
(obsolete, transitive) To supply food to; to feast.
(obsolete, intransitive) To take food.
• Paster, Pearts, paster, paters, petars, prates, pretas, repats, retaps, tapers, trapes, treaps
Source: Wiktionary
Re*past" (r-pst"), n. Etym: [OF. repast, F. repas, LL. repastus, fr. L. repascere to feed again; pref. re- re- + pascere, pastum, to pasture, feed. See Pasture.]
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", v. t. & i.
Definition: 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 November 2024
(adjective) concerned primarily with theories or hypotheses rather than practical considerations; “theoretical science”
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