repasting

English

Etymology

From repast +‎ -ing.

Noun

repasting

1. 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

1. present participle and gerund of repast

Anagrams

• retapings, string pea, taperings, trapesing