antepast
English edit
Etymology edit
From ante- + Latin pastus (“pasture, food”). Compare repast and Italian antipasto.
Noun edit
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
- 1664-1667, Jeremy Taylor, Dissuasive from Popery
References edit
- “antepast”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.