Repast vs Repaster - What's the difference?

repast | repaster |


As nouns the difference between repast and repaster

is that repast is a meal while repaster is one who takes a repast.

As a verb repast

is to supply food to; to feast.

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.

    Anagrams

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    repaster

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) One who takes a repast.
    • (Webster 1913)