repast

Meanings

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.

1. To supply (an animal or person) with food; to feed.
2. To provide (a person) with intellectual or spiritual nourishment; to enlighten, to feed.
3. To refresh (oneself or someone) through eating and drinking.
4. Usually followed by on or upon: to take food and drink; to feast, to feed.

Etymology

From Middle English repast, repaste (“feast, meal; food, nourishment; the Eucharist; refreshment, rest”) [and other forms], from Anglo-Norman, Middle French, Old French repast, Middle French, Old French repas (“meal, repast; spiritual nourishment”) (modern French repas), probably from Medieval Latin, Late Latin repastus (“meal”), from repāstus, the perfect passive participle of repāscō (“to feed; to feed one after another”), from Latin re- (prefix meaning ‘again’) + pāscō (“to feed, nourish; to pasture (an animal); of an animal: to browse, graze; to maintain, support”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂- (“to protect; to shepherd”)).