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antepast

[an-ti-past]

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noun Archaic.

a foretaste; appetizer.

Origin of antepast

1580–90; ante- + Latin pāstus food (orig. past participle of pāscere to feed), equivalent to pās- feed + -tus past participle suffix

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019

Related Words for antepast

starter, antipasto, canape, dip, aperitif, munchies, sample, cocktail

Examples from the Web for antepast

Historical Examples of antepast

It is but a taste, a foretaste, an antepast of the feast of heaven.
Henry Martyn Saint and Scholar
George Smith
The mildness of the sentence was an antepast of a more enlarged liberty under the new form of government.
Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution
L. Carroll Judson