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Definition of Antepasts
1. antepast [n] - See also: antepast
Lexicographical Neighbors of Antepasts
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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