Repasting

noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    gerund of repast: an act of eating or having a meal. form-of, gerund

    "[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."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of repast form-of, gerund, participle, present

Example

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"[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."

Etymology

From repast + -ing.

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