| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| repast |
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| SYLLABICATION: | re·past |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  r -p st |
| NOUN: | A meal or the food eaten or provided at a meal. | | VERB: | Inflected forms: re·past·ed, re·past·ing, re·pasts
| | INTRANSITIVE VERB: | To eat or feast. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | Obsolete To give food to. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English, from Old French, from Late Latin rep stus, from past participle of repscere, to feed : re-, re- + Latin pscere, to feed; see p- in Appendix I.
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