repastn.
/rᵻˈpɑːst/, /rᵻˈpast/, U.S. /rəˈpæst/, /riˈpæst/ Now somewhat archaic.† 1. Rest, repose; refreshment. Obsolete.† 5. The action or fact of eating food; refreshment gained by the consumption of food. Also figurative. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > [noun]
sleepc825
swevenOE
swevetOE
repasta1382
slumberc1386
lib1665
the land of Nod1738
balmy1841
shut-eye1899
beddy-byes1906
dreamland1912
sleepy-bye1925
sack drill1946
sack duty1954
zed1973
the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > refreshment or invigoration > [noun]
heartingOE
coolingc1350
refreshinga1382
recreationa1393
easement?a1400
rehetinga1400
freshing1422
refrigery?a1425
refectionc1450
refreshmenta1470
refrigeration1502
corroborating1530
recreating1538
comfortation1543
repast1546
rousing?a1563
refocillation1570
refresh1592
inanimationa1631
recruita1643
irrigationa1660
quicking1661
invigoration1662
reinvigoration1663
recuperation1703
rally1826
recruiting1840
energizing1841
recreance1842
inspiriting1846
animation1855
recruitment1862
inspiritment1886
pepping up1916
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Ecclus. xl. 5 In tyme of repast [a1425 L.V. restyng; L. refectionis] in the bed, slep of nyght chaungeth his kunnyng.
1546 Supplic. Poor Commons sig. b.v One of your highnesse chapellane..when he lusted to ryde abrode for his repaste.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. ii. sig. B3v His guest, who after troublous sights And dreames gan now to take more sound repast.
1615 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. III. O.T. xi. 417 She that began her prayers with fasting, and heauinesse, rises vp from them with cheerefulnesse, and repast.
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica v. vi. 241 After which they commonly retired to bed, and refected themselves with repast . View more context for this quotation
a1765 W. Dunkin Poet. Wks. (1769) I. 211 O happy souls, in full repast and sleep Supinely bury'd, negligently laid, Like paunchy sea-calves on the fishy shore!
2.
a. A quantity of food and drink forming or intended for a meal or feast.
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the world > food and drink > food > amounts of food > [noun] > amount for meal
repasta1393
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vi. 926 (MED) As of fielinge and of tast, Yit mihte I nevere have o repast.
c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. x. 148 He..aspieþ War he may raþest haue a repast [v.r. harpast] oþer a rounde of bacon.
a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Merlin (1904) I. l. 728 Every fryday thow most Faste and to the taken but on Repaste.
a1450–1509 (?a1300) Richard Coer de Lyon (A-version) (1913) 3098 (MED) Whenne he has..eeten weel a good repast..Sone he schal be ffresch and hayl.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. cxxx As soone as ye kyng had there taken a small & short repast he..rode into a felde.
1542 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories Archdeaconry Richmond (1853) 37 I wyll yt my freynds and neighbors haue a repayste after my buryall.
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iii. vi. 79 He is bound to giue a breakefast or repast vnto the Ianissairies.
1673 J. Milton Sonnets xvii, in Poems (new ed.) 60 What neat repast shall feast us, light and choice, Of Attick tast, with Wine?
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 93 The falling Mast, For greedy Swine, provides a full repast . View more context for this quotation
1757 T. Gray Ode II ii. iii, in Odes 17 Fill high the sparkling bowl, The rich repast prepare.
1789 H. Homer Let. 17 Nov. in G. Steevens Lett. (Folger Libr. MS) My father..most gratefully drank yr health in a Bumper after the luxurious repast.
1814 Ld. Byron Corsair ii. iv. 37 Methinks he strangely spares the rich repast.
1870 J. Yeats Nat. Hist. Commerce 78 Bees find a plentiful repast in the myriad flowers.
1969 J. Fowles French Lieutenant's Woman xix. 146 Nobody in Lyme liked good food and wine better; and the repast that Charles and the White Lion offered meeting his approval, he tacitly took over the role of host from the younger man.
1996 J. Gunn Joy Machine ix. 125 The man and woman responsible for the repast might have been master chefs.
b. figurative. As the type of something providing nourishment for the spirit, intellect, etc.
ΚΠ
a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) ii. 3915 (MED) In slauhtre & blood he dede hym most delite; For in tho tweyne was his repast in deede.
1598 W. Rankins Seauen Satyres 37 And though my tong proclaimes not publike fast, Yet prayers to prayse thee is my spirits repast.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) v. v. 249 If I proue a good repast to the Spectators, the dish payes the shot. View more context for this quotation
1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 113 He..spreads the honey of his deep research At his return, a rich repast for me.
1821 C. Lamb in London Mag. Nov. 469/1 Why have we none [sc. no grace] for books, those spiritual repasts?
1992 Utne Reader July 96/2 Well thought-out essays and book reviews by excellent writers..make the Hungry Mind Review a satisfying intellectual repast.
c. In the Inns of Court: a meal eaten by any member not paying fees for common meals, and paid for separately. Cf. repaster n. Now historical.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > meal > [noun] > single meal at Inns of Court
repast1517
1517 in W. P. Baildon Black Bks. (Rec. Soc. Lincoln's Inn) (1897) I. 182 Who so bryngith any repaster to the Redar's denar or sopar, except the Redar or any of the Benche, schall pay for the Repast.
1661 T. Blount Glossographia (ed. 2) Repast,..in the Inns of Court it signifies a single meal taken in the Hall by any one of the Society, who is not in Commons that week.
?1719 M. Davies Lawyer's Post No. 9 in Athenæ Britannicæ IV The Law-Students in the first two Years of their Commencement, were call'd Clerks Commons, then Masters Commons, afterwards Utter Barristers, and at last Benchers: All these had their Repasts or Meals together in one large Room or Hall, but at several different Tables, rail'd or barr'd in by themselves separatly.
1990 D. Lemmings Gentlemen & Barristers ii. 34 Those in commons were not necessarily present at meals in hall every day. Some were present for only a few days in each week; they were described as taking ‘half commons’. Others might enjoy no more than an occasional meal or ‘repast’.
d. An occasion when food is eaten; a meal, a feast. Also figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > meal > [noun]
mealeOE
meatshiplOE
meal of meatc1330
meal's meatc1330
refectiona1425
eating1483
mealtide1485
repasc1485
sustenancea1500
breakfast1526
repast1530
recreation1538
cooking1804
eat1844
scoff1846
grub1857
khana1859
meetsuk1896
nosh1964
trough1981
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 513/2 I desyre to dynner, or to a feest, or any repast, je semons.
a1639 H. Wotton View Life & Death Duke of Buckingham in Reliquiæ Wottonianæ (1651) 112 The Duke was at breakfast (the last of his repasts in this world).
1644 J. Milton Of Educ. 4 After evening repast, till bed time their thoughts will be best taken up in the easie grounds of Religion.
1732 T. Lediard tr. J. Terrasson Life Sethos II. viii. 157 The approaching night invites us to a repast.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 569 They eat at their repasts cakes of rice.
1802 T. Beddoes Hygëia I. i. 55 To hang a naked sword..over the head during the repast of life.
1837 B. Disraeli Venetia I. 116 After their repast, the children went into the garden.
1853 A. Soyer Pantropheon 367 In the 17th century playing fountains were still used at repasts.
1929 J. B. Priestley Good Compan. ii. i. 267 It would be absurd to pretend that the dinner Inigo gave that night was a memorable repast.
1990 A. C. Amor William Holman Hunt (new ed.) iii. 46 Collinson had no sense of fun, and at the Brotherhood's Bohemian repasts he could be guaranteed to fall asleep.
3. Food, nourishment; supply of food. Also figurative.
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the world > food and drink > food > supply of food or provisions > [noun]
victualsa1375
substancec1384
repasta1393
kitchenc1400
tablec1405
stuff1436
acates1465
acatry1522
victualling1532
provision1555
achates1570
plate1577
avitaile1592
support1599
horn and corn1633
subsistence1640
cribbing1652
purvey1678
commissariat1811
ration1814
commissary1883
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) vi. 698 (MED) Bot al withoute such repast Of lust..I faste.
a1456 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1911) i. 41 (MED) Whan Cryste is ete or resceyved in substaunce, Þat lyff is eten of hevenly excellence..Repast ay lasting.
a1464 J. Capgrave Chron. Eng. (Cambr.) 151 (MED) He was put in prison for evyr, and nevyr to have othir repast but bread and watir.
1574 A. Gilby tr. Test. Twelue Patriarches sig. Fviiiv He was in the pitte three dayes and three nightes without repast.
1599 T. Moffett Silkewormes 22 What liuing were you then But worms repast, though wise and mighty men?
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage ix. iii. 828 They carefully wash the carkasses of their dead, and lay them forth in the night, for repast vnto the Tigres.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 800 They..howle and gnaw My Bowels, their repast . View more context for this quotation
1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia p. vii Monkies the common Repast of the Tygers.
1734 A. Pope Satires of Horace ii. ii. 93 A Buck was then a week's repast.
1843 Symbol, & Odd Fellow's Mag. (Boston) 2 85/1 Do those books and periodicals which are filled with tales and fiction, constitute their intellectual repast?
1876 J. B. L. Warren Soldier of Fortune iii. ii. 256 Be these your courtly ways, to crave repast, And, on its readying, vanish?
1992 I. Banks Crow Road vii. 175 ‘Let us repair for some repast,’ he chuckled as he held the door open for me.
4. A particular kind of food or drink. Also figurative. Now rare.
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the world > food and drink > food > [noun] > an article or kind of food
meateOE
meatkinOE
foodOE
repast?c1500
refection1502
viand1527
sustenance1528
victual1558
cate1634
gustable1642
comestible1799
?c1500 Mary Magdalene (Digby) 485 Here, lady, is wyn, a re-past to man, and woman a good restoratyff.
1577 H. Rhodes Bk. Nurture (new ed.) sig. Eiv Let thy lyuing be of light repaste.
1668 J. Denham Poems 116 Sleep that is thy best repast, Yet of death it bears a taste.
1675 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (ed. 2) vii. 131 Of the Juice of Goosberries..is prepared a very pleasant cooling Repast.
1724 M. Davys Reform'd Coquet 141 Alanthus drank in Love faster than Tea, and Amoranda's Charms were his best Repast.
1817 J. Sansom Sketches Lower Canada 35 Every Peasant has a hog or two, to whom snakes are a favourite repast.
1987 Y. Devi Art of Indian Vegetarian Cooking 674 While rhubarb squash is relatively unknown in India, fresh pomegranate juice is a popular repast.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > [noun]
meatshiplOE
eatingc1175
dietingc1400
foodc1450
feedingc1475
manducationa1513
bit1523
comestion1595
repast1598
victitation1598
trencheringa1612
cibation1651
oneration1651
esure1657
grubbing1819
noshinga1941
1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iv. ii. 152 If (before [1623 being] repast) it shall please you to gratifie the table with a Grace. View more context for this quotation
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 309 The rooms of repast at supper. View more context for this quotation
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Oxf. 328 How inconsistent..to couple a spiritual grace with matters of corporeal repast.
1670 T. Brooks London's Lamentations ii. 270 Such as make the desolations of their neighbours to be the matter either of their secret repast, or open exultation.
1700 J. Dryden tr. G. Boccaccio Theodore & Honoria in Fables 260 The Day already half his Race had run, And summon'd him to due Repast at Noon.
1859 Ld. Tennyson Guinevere in Idylls of King 246 The silk pavilions of King Arthur raised For brief repast or afternoon repose.
Phrases
P1. to take one's repast: to eat food; to have a meal. Also figurative. Now rare.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eat [verb (intransitive)]
eatc825
to break breadeOE
baitc1386
feeda1387
to take one's repast?1490
to take repast1517
repast1520
peck?1536
diet1566
meat1573
victual1577
graze1579
manger1609
to craw it1708
grub1725
scoff1798
browse1818
provender1819
muckamuck1853
to put on the nosebag1874
refect1882
restaurate1882
nosh1892
tucker1903
to muck in1919
scarf1960
snack1972
?1490 Rule St. Benet (Caxton) 131 What howres..the congregacyon shall take theyr repast and meles.
1528 T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni (1541) 4 After wee haue dyned or taken our repaste, we muste for a whyle stande vp ryght.
1550 R. Crowley One & Thyrtye Epigrammes sig. Aiiiv Suche swyne..That in the filthye puddell take all their repaste.
1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iv. i. 114 They neuer went to take their repast without leaue.
1647 Weekly Acct. No. 12. sig. M2 The Commons concurred with the Lords in an ordinance, for the Kings children to take their repast in the countrey this Summer.
1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 99 While we were taking our Repast..it grew quite Night.
1797 A. Radcliffe Italian II. x. 345 Schedoni, preferring to take his repast in the open air, a table was spread under the luxuriant shade of the forest-trees.
1864 E. Smith Phases of Life II. ii. 60 They halted by the side of a stream, and took their repast beneath a spreading sycamore.
1922 B. W. Matz Dickensian Inns ix. 161 The inn where he took his repast, although not named, no doubt was Jack Straw's Castle.
2005 A. Rinaldi Brooklyn Rose xviii. 183 I bounced on the bed, and then sat proper-like with Rene at a small table with silk-covered chairs to take our repast.
P2. to take repast: to eat food; to have a meal. Now rare.In quot. 1574 figurative: to associate with.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eat [verb (intransitive)]
eatc825
to break breadeOE
baitc1386
feeda1387
to take one's repast?1490
to take repast1517
repast1520
peck?1536
diet1566
meat1573
victual1577
graze1579
manger1609
to craw it1708
grub1725
scoff1798
browse1818
provender1819
muckamuck1853
to put on the nosebag1874
refect1882
restaurate1882
nosh1892
tucker1903
to muck in1919
scarf1960
snack1972
society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > a companion or associate > accompany or associate with [verb (transitive)]
seeOE
to bear (a person) company (also fellowship, etc.)c1225
mella1300
fellowshipa1382
companya1400
accompany1461
to keep company (with)1502
encompanya1513
to keep (a person) company1517
to take repast1517
assist1553
to take up with1570
rempare1581
to go along with1588
amate1590
bear1590
to fall in1593
consort1598
second1600
to walk (also travel) in the way with1611
comitate1632
associate1644
enhaunt1658
join1713
assort1823
sit1828
companionize1870
to take tea with1888
to knock about with1915
tote1977
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1517 R. Fox tr. St. Benedict Rule xxiiii. sig. D.iv If any susters, be founde in a lyght offence, she shall be depriued the company of hir susters, at the table... If hir susters take repaste at the .vi. houre of the day, she shall take repaste at the .ix. houre.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. DDii It is moche better..to eate euery daye a lytell, than seldome to take repaste and fede to replecyon.
1574 E. Hellowes tr. A. de Guevara Familiar Epist. 64 Lying, and cowardnes, did neuer take repast with knighthood.
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. ix. sig. V5 Ne man nor beast may rest, or take repast, For their sharpe wounds, and noyous iniuries.
1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. v. 157 And so the Sponge-Spye, warily awakes The Sponges dull sence, when repast it takes.
1787 C. Dibdin Harvest-home i. i. 15 The sultry Noon cries–While they last, Seize on pleasures, take repast; Fortune's sickle And Fate's fickle May surprize us in our prime! Death's the Harvest-Home of Time.
1879 Liverpool Mercury 31 Jan. 3/7 He rested, took repast, and started at nine o'clock for Torrington.
1958 Mod. Lang. Notes 73 9 In Paradise Lost Satan watches Adam and Eve take repast soon after his arrival.
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repastv.
/rᵻˈpɑːst/, /rᵻˈpast/, U.S. /rəˈpæst/, /riˈpæst/ Now somewhat archaic.† 1. transitive (reflexive). To refresh oneself with food and drink. Also figurative. Obsolete.† 2. transitive. To feed (a person or animal); to supply with food. Frequently with with. Also intransitive and figurative. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eat [verb (reflexive)]
repasta1470
bait1633
fat1679
a1470 T. Malory Morte Darthur (Winch. Coll.) 318 They dranke the wyne and ete the venyson... And so whan they had repasted hem wel [etc.].
a1533 Ld. Berners tr. Arthur of Brytayn (?1560) lvii. sig. Miiii Whan that Arthur had well repasted hym selfe and hys horse.
1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 67 In mouing from place to place, with an appetite to repast themselues.
1575 R. B. Apius & Virginia sig. Bi Be of good cheere, Goe play and repast thee man, be mery.
1617 S. Collins Epphata to F. T. i. i. 29 Iohn rested and repasted himselfe on his [sc. Christ's] sacred bosome.
1765 Parasite I. 72 The Subaltern had repasted himself as much as he could upon the Fragments which descended from the upper End of the Table.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feed or nourish [verb (transitive)]
afeedeOE
foddereOE
feedc950
fosterc1175
fooda1225
nourishc1300
nurshc1325
nourishc1384
abechea1393
relievec1425
norrya1450
nurturea1450
pasturec1450
foisonc1485
bield1488
aliment1490
repast1494
nutrifya1500
repatera1522
battle1548
forage1552
nurse1591
substantiate1592
refeed1615
alumnate1656
focillate1656
the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > supply with food [verb (intransitive)]
repast1635
1494 Loutfut MS f. 33, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Repast And about him larges wes norist of the quhilk he repaisit mony folkis and spendit al his.
1512 Helyas in W. J. Thoms Coll. Early Prose Romances (1828) III. 34 God allmighty..that..wylled to repast the children of Israel in deserte with manna of heven.
?1545 R. Taverner Epist. & Gospelles (new ed.) f. cxxvi So is our soule repasted and nouryshed.
1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus ii. f. 26 So he rais, and on his veyage past. Fameist for fude, and richt skarslie repast.
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet iv. v. 147 I'le ope my armes, And like the kind life-rendring Pelican, Repast them with my blood. View more context for this quotation
1635 F. Quarles Emblemes i. xii. 49 A mod'rate use does both repast and please.
1670 J. Evelyn Sylva (ed. 2) ix. 61 The top-leaves and oldest should be gathered last of all, as being most proper to repast the worms with, towards their last change.
1774 W. Crookshank tr. H. Witsius Oeconomy of Covenants (new ed.) I. 102 And so in the soul, spiritually alive, there is motion, while it is fed, repasted and fattened with divine delights.
1808 Universal Mag. Dec. 523/2 In the vain hope of communing with stones and trees, repasting his mind with meditation or rectifying his passions by penance.
3. intransitive. To feed, feast. Chiefly with on, upon. Also figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eat [verb (intransitive)]
eatc825
to break breadeOE
baitc1386
feeda1387
to take one's repast?1490
to take repast1517
repast1520
peck?1536
diet1566
meat1573
victual1577
graze1579
manger1609
to craw it1708
grub1725
scoff1798
browse1818
provender1819
muckamuck1853
to put on the nosebag1874
refect1882
restaurate1882
nosh1892
tucker1903
to muck in1919
scarf1960
snack1972
1520 R. Whittington Uulgaria sig. kiii After the ordre, as they be set downe, soo repast vpon them.
1624 F. Quarles Sions Sonets xiv Refresht with thy delights, I haue repasted Vpon thy pleasures, my full soule hath tasted Thy rip'ned dainties.
1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 150 In their Hall where they Repast, at the upper End on the Table is placed a Death's Head.
1720 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad VI. xxiv. 546 They..found The Guards repasting, while the Bowls go round.
1781 Female Monitor 28 Mr. Worthy and Arabella often repasted on some of their innocent anecdotes selected from chosen authors.
1845 J. Nowell 28 Aug. in Brit. Farmer's Mag. (1847) 10 34/1 We found a hut built of wattled sticks and heather (Robinson Crusoe like), and a very nice cow repasting there upon green food in the stall.
1867 J. B. Rose tr. Virgil Æneis 296 Birds..Shall on thy huge and bleeding frame repast!
1903 Daily Nevada State Jrnl. 26 Apr. 8/3 They then repasted on a meal superintended by Prof. Brown, which indeed would surpass any ever set forth on the tables at the Waldorf-Astoria.
1949 J. Kerouac Jrnl. in Windblown World (2004) 333 In Sonora..we repasted on bread and spread-cheese.
1987 Daily Tel. 5 Dec. 8/6 Desperate Dan, the man from Cactusville Gulch who invented designer stubble, shaved with an axe and repasted upon cow pie.
Derivatives
reˈpasting n.
ΘΚΠ
society > education > teaching > [noun]
lore971
wissingc1000
wordloreOE
teachingc1175
kenningc1320
lering1377
learningc1380
disciplinea1382
doctrinec1384
ensignment1398
instruction?a1439
schoolc1449
schoolingc1449
document?a1500
instructing1516
entechmenta1522
institution1531
teachment1562
repasting1567
tuition1582
lessoning1583
tutoring1590
loring1596
tutorage1638
indoctrination1646
principling1649
tutorya1713
tutorhood1752
didactic1754
documenting1801
pupillizing1815
tutorizing1837
tutorization1842
tutelagea1856
coachmanship1873
preception1882
1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 86v The sielye Birdes..flie to his Carcasse, and are verie busie about repasting.
1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 11 God..left arbitrary the dyeting and repasting of our minds.
1847 J. E. Leeson Wreath of Lilies 182 The board round which in thankfulness the Holy Household met, By Mary's hand in due array for their repasting set.
1996 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch (Nexis) 7 Dec. 22 There are two things that distinguish parties, particularly holiday parties, from regular repasting.
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