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▪ I. repast, n.|rɪˈpɑːst, -æ-|
[a. OF. repast (mod.F. repas), f. repaistre (mod.F. repaître):—late L. repascĕre, f. re- re- + pascĕre to feed: see pasture n.]
1. A quantity of food and drink forming, or intended for, a meal or feast; a meal or feast in its material aspect, freq. with reference to the quantity or quality of the food.
13..Coer de L. 3076 Whenne he has..eeten weel a good repast,..Sone he schal be fresch and hayl. 1393Langl. P. Pl. C. x. 148 He..aspieþ Whar he may raþest haue a repast oþer a rounde of bacon. c1450Lovelich Merlin 728 (Kölbing) Every fryday thow most faste And to the taken but on repaste. 1494Fabyan Chron. vii. 501 As soone as y⊇ Kyng had there taken a small and short repast, he..rode into a felde. 1542Richmond Wills (Surtees) 37, I wyll yt my freynds and neighbors haue a repayste after my buryall. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. iii. vi. 79 He is bound to giue a breakefast or repast vnto the Ianissairies. c1656Milton Sonn., to Lawrence, What neat repast shall feast us, light and choice, Of Attick tast, with Wine..? 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. ii. 756 The falling Mast For greedy Swine provides a full Repast. 1757Gray Bard 78 Fill high the sparkling bowl, The rich repast prepare. 1813Byron Corsair ii. iv, Methinks he strangely spares the rich repast. 1870Yeats Nat. Hist. Comm. 78 Bees find a plentiful repast in the myriad flowers.
fig.1611Shakes. Cymb. v. iv. 157 If I proue a good repast to the Spectators, the dish payes the shot. 1784Cowper Task iv. 113 He..spreads the honey of his deep research At his return, a rich repast for me. 1821Lamb Elia Ser. i. Grace bef. Meat, Why have we none [sc. no grace] for books, those spiritual repasts..?
†b. to take one's repast, to take one's food, take a meal. Obs.
c1490Caxton Rule St. Benet 131 What howres..the congregacyon shall take theyr repast and meles. 1528Paynel Salernes Regim. (1541) 4 After wee haue dyned or taken our repaste, we muste for a whyle stande vp ryght. 1550Crowley Epigr. 42 Suche swyne..That in the filthye puddell take all their repaste. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. iv. i. 114 They neuer went to take their repast without leaue. 1725De Foe Voy. round World (1840) 269 While we were taking our repast it grew quite night.
†c. (See quot. 1661.) Obs.
1517[see repaster]. 1661Blount Glossogr., 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.
†2. (Without article.) Food, supply of food or victuals. Also fig. Obs.
1390Gower Conf. III. 25 Bot al withoute such repast Of lust, as ye me tolde above,..I faste, and mai no fode gete. 1426Lydg. De Guil. Pilgr. 4618 He gaff hem alderlast Hys owne boody for cheff repast. c1440Macro Plays (E.E.T.S.) 188 Yf a mane ete the flesshe of a gose for his repaste and fedyng. 1577Test. 12 Patriarchs (1706) 91 He was in the pit three days and three nights without repast. 1599T. M[oufet] Silkwormes 22 What liuing were you then But worms repast, though wise and mighty men? 1613Purchas Pilgrimage ix. iii. (1614) 828 They carefully wash the carkasses of their dead, and lay them forth in the night, for repast vnto the Tigres. 1667Milton P.L. ii. 800 They..howle and gnaw My Bowels, their repast. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. p. vii, Monkies the common Repast of the Tygers. 1732Pope Hor. Sat. ii. ii. 93 A Buck was then a week's repast.
†b. to take repast, to take food. Also fig. to associate with one. Obs.
1526Pilgr Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 83 It is moche better..to eate euery daye a lytell, than seldome to take repaste, & fede to replecyon. 1574Hellowes Gueuara's Fam. Ep. (1577) 41 Lying, and cowardnesse, did neuer take repaste with knighthoode. 1590Spenser F.Q. ii. ix. 16 Ne man nor beast may rest, or take repast For their sharpe wounds and noyous injuries.
†3. A kind of food or drink. Obs.
c1485Digby Myst. (1882) iii. 485 Here, lady, is wyn, a repast, to man and woman a good restoratyff. c1530H. Rhodes Bk. Nurture in Babees Bk. (1868) 105 Let thy lyuing be of light repaste. 1669Worlidge Syst. Agric. (1681) 143 Of the Juice of Goosberries..is prepared a very pleasant cooling Repast.
fig.a1668Denham A Song, Sleep that is thy best repast, Yet of death it bears a taste.
4. The action or fact of taking food; the refreshment of food. Now arch.
1588Shakes. L.L.L. iv. ii. 160 (Q.), If (before repast) it shall please you to gratifie the table with a Grace. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. 309 The rooms of repast at supper. a1661Fuller Worthies (1840) III. 6 How inconsistent.., to couple a spiritual grace with matters of corporeal repast. 1700Dryden Theod. & Hon. 86 The day already half his race had run, And summoned him to due repast at noon. 1859Tennyson Guinevere 362 The silk pavilions of King Arthur raised For brief repast or afternoon repose.
fig.1670Brooks Wks. (1867) VI. 311 Such as make the desolations of their neighbours to be the matter either of their secret repast or open exultation.
b. An occasion of taking or partaking of food; a meal or feast in this sense.
a1639Wotton Life Dk. Buckm. in Reliq. (1651) 112 The Duke was at breakfast (the last of his repasts in this world). 1644Milton Educ. 4 After evening repast, till bed time, their thoughts will be best taken up in the easie grounds of Religion. 1732T. Lediard Sethos II. viii. 157 The approaching night invites us to a repast. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. II. 569 They eat at their repasts cakes of rice. 1837Disraeli Venetia i. xi, After their repast, the children went into the garden. 1853A. Soyer Pantroph. 367 In the 17th century playing fountains were still used at repasts.
fig.1802Beddoes Hygeia i. 55 To hang a naked sword..over the head during the repast of life.
†5. Refreshment; repose. Obs.
1546Supplic. of Poore Commons (E.E.T.S.) 78 One of your Highnes chapplene..when he lusted to ride a brode for his repast. 1590Spenser F.Q. i. ii. 4 His guest, who, after troublous sights And dreames, gan now to take more sound repast. 1615Bp. Hall Contempl., O.T. xi. vi, She that began her prayers with fasting, and heavinesse, rises up from them with chearefulnesse and repast.
▪ II. repast, v. Now rare.|rɪˈpɑːst, -æ-|
Also 6 Sc. as pa. pple.
[ad. L. repast-, ppl. stem of repascĕre (see prec.), or f. the n.]
†1. refl. To refresh (oneself) with food. Obs.
In latest quots. perhaps fig. (cf. prec., sense 5).
1470–85Malory Arthur vii. xiv, They dranke the wyne, and ete the veneson... And so whan they had repasted hem wel [etc.]. c1530Ld. Berners Arth. Lyt. Bryt. (1814) 212 Whan that Arthur had well repasted hym selfe and hys horse. 1567J. Maplet Gr. Forest 67 In mouing from place to place, with an appetite to repast themselues. 1575R. B. Appius & Virg. in Hazl. Dodsley IV. 118 Be of good cheer, Go play and repast thee, man, be merry. 1617Collins Def. Bp. Ely i. i. 29 Iohn rested and repasted himselfe on his sacred bosome.
†2. trans. To feed, supply with food. Obs.
1512Helyas in Thoms Prose Rom. (1828) III. 34 God allmighty..that..wylled to repast the children of Israel in deserte with manna of heven. 1560Rolland Crt. Venus ii. 473 So he rais and on his veyage past, Fameist for fude, and richt skarslie repast. 1602Shakes. Ham. iv. v. 147 Ile ope my Armes, And like the kinde Life-rend'ring Pelican, Repast them with my blood. 1669Evelyn Sylva (1776) 309 The top-leaves and oldest should be gathered last of all, as being most proper to repast the worms with, towards their last change.
absol.1635Quarles Embl. i. xii, A mod'rate use does both repast and please.
fig.1540Taverner Postils (Exhort. bef. Communion), So is our soule repasted & nouryshed.
3. intr. To feed, feast. Chiefly const. on, upon.
1520Whitinton Vulg. (1527) 41 b, After the ordre, as they be set downe, so repaste vpon them. 1624Quarles Sion's Sonn. xiv, Refresht with thy delights, I haue repasted Vpon thy pleasures, my full soule hath tasted Thy rip'ned dainties. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 150 In their Hall where they Repast, at the upper End on the Table is placed a Death's Head. 1720Pope Iliad xxiv. 546 They..found The Guards repasting, while the Bowls go round. 1867J. B. Rose tr. Virgil's æneid 296 Birds..Shall on thy huge and bleeding frame repast!
Hence reˈpasting vbl. n.
1644Milton Areop. (Arb.) 44 God..left arbitrary the dyeting and repasting of our minds. |
