antepast
nounEtymology From ante- + Latin pastus (“pasture, food”). Compare repast and Italian antipasto.
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Obsolete A foretaste.
- 1664-1667, Jeremy Taylor, Dissuasive from Popery antepasts of joy and comforts
- this antepast of heaven1782, John Wesley, Hymn to the Holy Ghost:
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- antepasts of endless blessedness1850, Timothy Alden Taylor, Zion's Pathway: