repast

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ɹɪˈpɑːst/|/-ˈpæst/    美 /ɹɪˈpæst/|/ɹə-/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A meal. archaic,countable,literary,uncountable
    — After evening repaſt, till bed time their thoughts will be beſt taken up in the eaſie grounds of Religion, and the ſtory of Scripture.
  2. A period of refreshment or rest. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — [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 Fore-Fathers.
  3. Food or drink that may be consumed as a meal. archaic,countable,uncountable
    — I prethee go, and get me ſome repaſt, / I care not what, ſo it be holſome foode.
  4. Something that is intellectually or spiritually nourishing. archaic,countable,figuratively,uncountable
    — 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.
  5. The consumption of food; also, refreshment obtained from eating; (generally) refreshment; rest. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — Forthwith he runnes with feigned faithfull haſt / Vnto his gueſt, who after troublous ſights / And dreames gan now to take more ſound repaſt, […]
动词 v.
  1. To supply (an animal or person) with food; to feed. archaic,transitive
    — To his good friends thus wide I'le ope my armes, / And like the kind life-rendring Pelican, / Repaſt them with my blood.
  2. To provide (a person) with intellectual or spiritual nourishment; to enlighten, to feed. archaic,figuratively,transitive
  3. To refresh (oneself or someone) through eating and drinking. also,obsolete,reflexive,transitive
    — [A]nd ſoo within a lytil whyle they came to that heremytage ⸝ and there they dranke the wyne ⸝ and ete the veneſon and the foules baken ⸝ And ſo whan they had repaſted hem wel ⸝ the dwarf retorned ageyn with his veſſel vn to the caſtel ageyne ⸝ […]
    And so within a little while they came to that hermitage, and there they drank the wine, and ate the venison and the baked fowls. And so when they had repasted themselves well, the dwarf returned again with his vessel unto the castle again, […]
  4. Usually followed by on or upon: to take food and drink; to feast, to feed. also,figuratively,intransitive,obsolete
    — And now they reach'd the naval Walls, and found / The Guards repaſting, while the Bowls go round; […]

词形变化

repasts plural repasts present,singular,third-person repasting participle,present repasted participle,past repasted past

词汇关系

衍生词
repaster repasting
相关词
antepast

词源

词源 1
From Middle English repast, repaste (“feast, meal; food, nourishment; the Eucharist; refreshment, rest”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman, Middle French, Old French repast, Middle French, Old French repas (“meal, repast; spiritual nourishment”) (modern French repas), probably from Medieval Latin, Late Latin repastus (“meal”), from repāstus, the perfect passive participle of repāscō (“to feed; to feed one after another”), from Latin re- (prefix meaning ‘again’) + pāscō (“to feed, nourish; to pasture (an animal); of an animal: to browse, graze; to maintain, support”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to protect; to shepherd”)).
词源 2
Partly:
* from Middle English repasten (“(reflexive) to refresh (oneself) with food”) [and other forms], either from repast, repaste (“feast, meal; food, nourishment; the Eucharist; refreshment, rest”) + -en (suffix forming the infinitive forms of verbs); or from Late Latin repāstus, the perfect passive participle of repāscō (“to feed; to feed one after another”) (see further at etymology 1); and
* from repast (noun).
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