Repast vs False - What's the difference?
repast | false |
(countable) A meal.
* Milton
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(uncountable) The food eaten at a meal.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To supply food to; to feast.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To take food.
* Milton
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
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Spurious, artificial.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As a noun repast
is (countable) a meal.As a verb repast
is (obsolete|transitive) to supply food to; to feast.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.repast
English
Noun
- From dance to sweet repast they turn.
- When at last they were thoroughly toasted, the Badger summoned them to the table, where he had been busy laying a repast .
- "'Tis true, tonight I ate my last of the royal repast ."
- Go and get me some repast .
Verb
(en verb)- Repast them with my blood.
- He then, also, as before, left arbitrary the dieting and repasting of our minds.
Anagrams
* ----false
English
Adjective
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