Definition of Antepasts

1. Noun. (plural of antepast) ¹

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Definition of Antepasts

1. antepast [n] - See also: antepast

Lexicographical Neighbors of Antepasts

antennapedia complex
antennary
antennas
antenniferous
antenniform
antennular
antennule
antennules
antennæ
antenuptial
anteorbital
antepaenultimate
antepartum
antepaschal
antepast
antepasts (current term)
antependia
antependium
antependiums
antepenult
antepenultima
antepenultimas
antepenultimate
antepenultimately
antepenultimates
antepenultime
antepenults
antepetalous
antephialtic
antepileptic

Literary usage of Antepasts

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Ecclesiastical Biography: Or, Lives of Eminent Men, Connected with the by Christopher Wordsworth (1853)
"... antepasts of heaven, and consignations to an immortality of joys. And it may be so again, when it shall please God, who hath the hearts of all princes ..."

2. The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor by Jeremy Taylor, Charles Page Eden, Reginald Heber, Alexander Taylor (1850)
"... as being invitations to duty by the entertainments of our affections with such sweetnesses which represent the glory of the reward by the antepasts and ..."

3. Sacred Classics: Or, Cabinet Library of Divinity by Henry Stebbing, Richard Cattermole (1835)
"All other delights are the pleasures of beasts or the sports of children ; these are the antepasts and preventions of the full feasts and overflowings of ..."

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