antepast

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English

Etymology

From ante- +‎ Latin pastus (“pasture, food”). Compare repast and Italian antipasto.

Noun

antepast (plural antepasts)

(obsolete) A foretaste.
- 1664-1667, Jeremy Taylor, Dissuasive from Popery
  antepasts of joy and comforts
- 1782, John Wesley, Hymn to the Holy Ghost:
  this antepast of heaven
- 1850, Timothy Alden Taylor, Zion's Pathway:
  antepasts of endless blessedness

References

“antepast”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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