Repasting
noun, verb
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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 present participle and gerund of repast form-of, gerund, participle, present
Example
More examples"[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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