单词 | antepast |
释义 | antepastn.ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > qualities of food > [noun] > appetizer shoeing-horn1536 antepast1582 rasher1609 whet1688 appetite1693 relisher1732 whetter1755 appetizer1862 amuse-bouche1959 amuse-gueule1963 amuse1988 relish2006 1582 A. Munday Eng. Romayne Lyfe 26 The first messe, or Antepast (as they call it) that is brought to the Table, is some fine meat to vrge them haue an appetite. 1694 W. Burnaby tr. T. P. Arbiter Satyr 41 When having whet our appetites with an excellent Antipast, we swill'd our selves with the choicest of Wine. 1897 M. Wilkinson tr. M. Pellisson Rom. Life in Pliny's Time vii. 173 The antepast consisted of shell fish. 2. In extended use. A sample of something to come; a foretaste, esp. of the joys of heaven. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > [noun] > preview, foretaste arlesc1220 earnestc1225 forelook1357 foresight1422 foretaste1435 earnest pennya1438 before-tasting1526 prelibation1526 tasting1526 promise?1533 say1549 to-looka1572 handsel1573 assay1597 antepast1604 prefruitiona1631 cue1647 pregustation1656 pregustator1670 scene1691 tint1768 outlook1823 fore-view1831 preview1882 1604 T. Bell Downefall Poperie 41 But this here is a sufficient antepast for all our English Iesuits and Iesuited popelings. a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1957) III. 234 An Office is but an Antipast, it gets them an appetite to another Office. 1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar i. Ad section iv. 53 These [delights] are the antepasts and preventions of the full feasts..of Eternity. 1714 C. Johnson Country Lasses v Gives us an antepast of joys above. 1778 H. Walpole Last Jrnls. Dec. A very unexpected blow..an antepast of the odium they were to incur. 1830 Blackwood's Mag. Feb. 306/2 An antepast of their inward treasures. 1855 A. T. de Vere Poems 208 Rich antepasts we have in thee Of glory and eternity. 1908 J. Davidson Mammon & his Message i. 18 Perdition's antepast and hell on earth, The torture-chamber. 1976 T. F. Torrance Space, Time & Resurrection iv. 101 At the Holy Supper..we taste already the powers of the age to come and are given an antepast of the great banquet of the Kingdom that is to come. 2001 R. Havard Crucified Mind v. 159 In this sense communion food, as the antepast of heaven, has links with sexual gratification. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1582 |
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