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▪ I. † reˈfect, pa. pple. Obs.
[ad. L. refectus, pa. pple. of reficĕre: see next.]
Refreshed, restored.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. iv. pr. vi. 111 (Camb. MS.), Tak thanne this drawht; and whan þow art wel refresshed and refect [L. refectus], thow shal be moore stydefast to stye in to heyere questyouns. 1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 53 Quhen he was wele refect, he passit in Affrik, to mak were on Hanyball.
▪ II. refect, v.|rɪˈfɛkt|
Also 5 Sc. refeck.
[Orig. f. L. refect-, ppl. stem of reficĕre to remake, restore, renew, etc., f. re- re- + facĕre to make: in later use a back-formation from refection.
The word app. fell out of use before 1700 and was revived in the 19th c., but has always been rare and is now somewhat rhetorical in sense 1.]
1. a. trans. To refresh, esp. with food or drink; to restore after fatigue. Now usually refl.
c1470Henry Wallace iii. 9 Fyscheis in flude refeckit rialye Till mannys fude. 1570Levins Manip. 47/47 To Refect, reficere. 1614Lodge Seneca, Epist. 259 So like⁓wise ought we sometimes to recreate our spirit, and refect the same with some delights. 1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iv. vii. 196 A man in the morning is lighter in the scale,..and is also lighter unto himselfe, because he is refected. Ibid. v. vi. 241 After which they commonly retired to bed, and refected themselves with repast. 1813T. Busby Lucretius I. Diss. p. iii, The world itself is refected and nourished by a perpetual accession of these corpuscles. 1822T. L. Peacock Maid Marian iii, The knight and the friar..proceeded to refect themselves after their ride. 1859Sala Tw. round Clock (1861) 195, I remember once refecting myself at a public dinner.
b. intr. (for refl.) To take a refection.
1886Sala in Illustr. Lond. News 27 Mar. 312/1 While you are refecting in the saloon.
2. trans. To eat (fæcal pellets).
1960M. Burton Wild Animals Brit. Isles 60 The droppings refected are different from those discarded. 1964R. M. Lockley Private Life of Rabbit x. 102 Termites may refect food as much as six times. |