repaster

English

Etymology

From repast +‎ -er.

Noun

repaster (plural repasters)

1. (obsolete) One who takes a repast, or light meal.
   • 1804, William Herbert, Antiquities of the Inns of court and chancery, page 311:

     if any fellow of this house, being a commoner, or repaster, should, within the precincts of this house, wear any cloak, bootes and spurrs, or long hair, to pay for every offence 5s. for a fine, and also be put out of commons.

   • 1896, Frederick Andrew Inderwick, Richard Arthur Roberts, A Calendar of the Inner Temple Records - Volume 1, page 239:

     Order that "none of this company shall bring any repaster to the reader's drinking or dinner, the reader and stewards only excepted, upon pain of 10s.

   • 1901, Gray's Inn, Reginald James Fletcher, The Pension Book of Gray's Inn, page 301:

     (2) That every repaster pay 2^d ob the repast.

Anagrams

• taperers

French

Etymology

From English repaste.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʁə.pas.te/

Verb

repaster

1. to repaste, to restick

Conjugation

Conjugation of repaster (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	repaster
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	repastant /ʁə.pas.tɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		repasté /ʁə.pas.te/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	repaste /ʁə.past/	repastes /ʁə.past/	repaste /ʁə.past/	repastons /ʁə.pas.tɔ̃/	repastez /ʁə.pas.te/	repastent /ʁə.past/
	imperfect	repastais /ʁə.pas.tɛ/	repastais /ʁə.pas.tɛ/	repastait /ʁə.pas.tɛ/	repastions /ʁə.pas.tjɔ̃/	repastiez /ʁə.pas.tje/	repastaient /ʁə.pas.tɛ/
	past historic2	repastai /ʁə.pas.te/	repastas /ʁə.pas.ta/	repasta /ʁə.pas.ta/	repastâmes /ʁə.pas.tam/	repastâtes /ʁə.pas.tat/	repastèrent /ʁə.pas.tɛʁ/
	future	repasterai /ʁə.pas.tə.ʁe/	repasteras /ʁə.pas.tə.ʁa/	repastera /ʁə.pas.tə.ʁa/	repasterons /ʁə.pas.tə.ʁɔ̃/	repasterez /ʁə.pas.tə.ʁe/	repasteront /ʁə.pas.tə.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	repasterais /ʁə.pas.tə.ʁɛ/	repasterais /ʁə.pas.tə.ʁɛ/	repasterait /ʁə.pas.tə.ʁɛ/	repasterions /ʁə.pas.tə.ʁjɔ̃/	repasteriez /ʁə.pas.tə.ʁje/	repasteraient /ʁə.pas.tə.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	repaste /ʁə.past/	repastes /ʁə.past/	repaste /ʁə.past/	repastions /ʁə.pas.tjɔ̃/	repastiez /ʁə.pas.tje/	repastent /ʁə.past/
	imperfect2	repastasse /ʁə.pas.tas/	repastasses /ʁə.pas.tas/	repastât /ʁə.pas.ta/	repastassions /ʁə.pas.ta.sjɔ̃/	repastassiez /ʁə.pas.ta.sje/	repastassent /ʁə.pas.tas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	repaste /ʁə.past/	—	repastons /ʁə.pas.tɔ̃/	repastez /ʁə.pas.te/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).