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reˈfall, v.
[re- 5 a.]
1. intr. To fall a second time.
1620Shelton Don Quix. iv. x. II. 137 Stumbling here, falling there, getting up again on the other side, and re⁓falling on this. 1632J. Hayward tr. Biondi's Eromena 173 For one of a perfect sight to fall and refall so foulely..is a thing altogether prodigious.
2. To fall back or again into a state.
1570Foxe A. & M. (ed. 2) 617/1 He had decreed to procede to the degradation..of the sayd William Sautrie, as refallen into heresie. 1647Fuller Wounded Consc. viii. 53, I..have often re-fallen into the same offence. 1658J. Webb Cleopatra viii. i. 4 She was againe re-fallen into that captivity from whence they thought her entirely delivered.
So reˈfall n., a repeated fall.
1727Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Distillation of Oil, Falling back into the Vessel, they are dissolved again, and at last, by continual Thickening and Refalls, are wasted and come to nothing. |