[f. prec.]
1. intr. To break one’s fast (see BREAK v. 29 c); to take the first meal of the day.
1679. Everard, Popish Plot, 11. After break-fasting peaceably.
1752. Johnson, Rambl., No. 200, ¶ 6. A back room, where he always breakfasted when he had not great company.
1883. Froude, Short Stud., IV. II. ii. 181. If an undergraduate now and then breakfasted with his tutor, the undergraduate was shy.
2. trans. To provide with breakfast, entertain at breakfast.
1793. T. Jefferson, Writ., IV. 83. They will breakfast you.
1885. M. Pattison, Mem., 50. I was breakfasted by Copleston.
