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Repass vs Repast - What's the difference?

repass | repast |

As verbs the difference between repast and repass

is that repast is to supply food to; to feast while repass is to pass (back) again, especially in the opposite direction; to return.

As a noun repast

is a meal.

repass

English

Verb

(es)
  • To pass (back) again, especially in the opposite direction; to return.
  • *, Folio Society, 2006, vol.1, p.221:
  • Isabell'' Queene of ''England'', being to repasse from ''Zeland into her Kingdome with an armie,.

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    repast

    English

    Noun

  • (countable) A meal.
  • * Milton
  • From dance to sweet repast they turn.
  • * 1908 ,
  • When at last they were thoroughly toasted, the Badger summoned them to the table, where he had been busy laying a repast .
  • * 2010 ,
  • "'Tis true, tonight I ate my last of the royal repast ."
  • (uncountable) The food eaten at a meal.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Go and get me some repast .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To supply food to; to feast.
  • * Shakespeare
  • Repast them with my blood.
  • (obsolete) To take food.
  • * Milton
  • He then, also, as before, left arbitrary the dieting and repasting of our minds.

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