Meanings
repasting1
noun
- gerundgerund of repast: an act of eating or having a meal.
[W]hen God did enlarge the univerſall diet of mans body, ſaving ever the rules of temperance, he then alſo, as before, left arbitrary the dyeting and repaſting of our minds; as wherein every mature man might have to exerciſe his owne leading capacity.
1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 11
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of repast
repasting2
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of repaste
Origin
repasting · verb
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
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