Meaning

A meal..

Definitions by Sense

1. A meal.
2. A period of refreshment or rest.
3. Food or drink that may be consumed as a meal.
4. Something that is intellectually or spiritually nourishing.
5. The consumption of food; also, refreshment obtained from eating; (generally) refreshment; rest.
6. To supply (an animal or person) with food; to feed.
7. To provide (a person) with intellectual or spiritual nourishment; to enlighten, to feed.
8. To refresh (oneself or someone) through eating and drinking.

Example Sentences

After evening repaſt, till bed time their thoughts will be beſt taken up in the eaſie grounds of Religion, and the ſtory of Scripture.

Forthwith from dance to ſweet repaſt they turn / Deſirous, all in Circles as they ſtood, / Tables are ſet, and on a ſudden pil'd / With Angels Food, and rubied Nectar flows: […]

The Winter comes, and then the falling Maſt, / For greedy Swine, provides a full repaſt.

We pitch'd our little Camp here, and ſet down to our Repaſt; for I found, that tho' we were to go back to lodge, yet my Patron had taken care we ſhould be furniſhed ſufficiently for Dinner, and have a good Houſe to eat it in; that is to ſay, a Tent, as before.

Earth's coarsest bread, the garden's homeliest roots, / And scarce the summer luxury of fruits, / His short repast in humbleness supply / With all a hermit's board would scarce deny.

When at last they were thoroughly toasted, the Badger summoned them to the table, where he had been busy laying a repast.

About 200 guests were invited and entertained to lunch in the so-called booking hall at Waterloo; the contractors, Spiers & Pond Limited, were much praised for organising the repast, with attendant cloak room facilities, so well in such unfavourable surroundings.

I do not run from the King, the King has run me out. Now that Lord Pharaoh has his ear, he says my sense of humor is in doubt. 'Tis true, tonight I ate my last of the royal repast.

Word Forms

• repasts
• repasting
• repasted

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