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English
Etymology
From repast + -ing.
Noun
repasting
- gerund of repast: an act of eating or having a meal.
1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 11:[W]hen God did enlarge the univerſall diet of mans body, ſaving ever the rules of temperance, he then alſo, as before, left arbitrary the dyeting and repaſting of our minds; as wherein every mature man might have to exerciſe his owne leading capacity.
Verb
repasting
- present participle and gerund of repast
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