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refreshment|rɪˈfrɛʃmənt|
[a. OF. refreschement (-fresshe-, -fraische-, etc.), f. refrescher to refresh + -ment. Cf. mod.F. rafraîchissement.]
1. The act of refreshing, or fact of being refreshed, in a mental or spiritual respect.
1387–8T. Usk Test. Love ii. xiii. (Skeat) l. 122 Sithen mercie and pite..might neuer been shewed [unto] refreshement of helpe, and of comforte. 1549Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. Rev. xxi. 35 The eternal springynge floode of refreshment vnto saluacion. 1651Cromwell Let. 24 Mar. in Carlyle, With singleness of heart to His glory, and the refreshment of His people. 1675Traherne Chr. Ethics 248 All the misery that is lodged in infinite despair has comfort and refreshment answerable to it in infinite hope. 1717S. Sewall Diary 18 Nov., Mr. Baxter came in and Pray'd with us to my great Refreshment. 1796Jane Austen Pride & Prej. xviii, She danced next with an officer, and had the refreshment of talking of Wickham. 1873Holland A. Bonnic. viii, I most devoutly trust we are going to have a season of refreshment.
2. a. The act of refreshing, or fact of being refreshed, physically, by means of food, drink, rest, coolness, etc.; † recreation. Also, that which refreshes in this way; the means of restoring strength or vigour, mental or physical. Freq. in phr. to take refreshment.
1481Caxton Godfrey cxl. 209 This refresshement was not only in the men, but alle theyr horses were anon so stronge, so fresshe [etc.]. 1624Capt. Smith Virginia v. 182 Hee recouered about foure spoonefuls of raine water to his vnspeakeable refreshment. 1667Milton P.L. ix. 237 When we need Refreshment, whether food, or talk between, Food of the mind. 1703Maundrell Journ. Jerus. (1707) 67 Having taken a little refreshment, we went to the Latin Convent. 1784Cowper Task i. 390 The sedentary stretch their lazy length When custom bids, but no refreshment find. 1849Thackeray Pendennis xv, May I offer you any refreshment..? 1856Sir B. Brodie Psychol. Inq. I. iv. 142 The absence of its natural refreshment would powerfully affect the nervous system. 1872Yeats Techn. Hist. Comm. 125 All these establishments for shelter and refreshment early attracted the attention of governments.
†b. quarters of refreshment: (see quarter n. 15). Obs.
1678Lond. Gaz. No. 1318/4 On the side of Catalonia the Kings Troops are all in quarters of refreshment. 1702Ibid. No. 3810/7 His Forces were in Quarters of Refreshment in some Towns. 1812Examiner 31 Aug. 549/2 His Majesty has sent the army into quarters of refreshment.
†c. Sunday of Refreshment: (see quot. and 7).
So called because the Gospel for the day is from John vi.
1710C. Wheatly Bk. Com. Prayer v. §12 (1720) 225 The fourth [Sunday in Lent] is with us generally called Midlent Sunday; tho' Bishop Sparrow, and some others, term it, Dominica Refectionis, the Sunday of Refreshment.
3. With a and pl.
a. In general sense.
1387–8T. Usk Test. Love iii. vii. (Skeat) l. 31 The grete bounties & worthy refreshements that she..ofte hath me rekened. 1611Cotgr., Frescades, refreshments, or things refreshing. 1651Hobbes Leviath. ii. xxix. 173 The small refreshments of such things as coole for a time. 1696Stanhope Chr. Pattern (1711) 38 The inward refreshements and unspeakable consolations of the Blessed Spirit. 1747Wesley Charac. Methodist 10 His Business and Refreshments, as well as his Prayers, all serve to this great End. 1829Good's Study Med. (ed. 3) IV. 473 The kneading-friction, or shampooing..which has of late become a fashionable refreshment in the watering-places of our own country. 1888Burgon Lives 12 Gd. Men II. v. 68 Such matters were evidently a favourite refreshment of his spirit.
b. Applied to food and drink. Now only pl. of a light repast, and often spec. of drink.
1665G. Havers P. della Valle's Trav. E. India 109 A Present of Sugar Canes and other refreshments to eat. 1729Law Serious C. ix. 125 To make their use of liquors a matter of conscience, and allow of no refreshments but such as are consistent with the strictest rules of Christian Sobriety. 1780Act 21 Geo. III, c. 49 §2 The common and usual Prices at which the like Refreshments are commonly sold. 1829Lytton Disowned II. 5 Have you had any refreshments, Mamma..? 1829Landor Imag. Conv., Odysseus, etc., While the goats are being milked, and such other refreshments are preparing for us as the place affords.
†4. pl. Fresh supplies of men or provisions. Obs.
1481Caxton Godfrey clxxiv. 258 To them cam newe ayde & grete refresshementes of men and vytaylle. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. i. xvii. 19 Fiue and twentie Muttons, and certain other refreshments. 1706Lond. Gaz. No. 4197/3 They had [taken] one within the Streights, laden with Refreshments. 1772–84Cook's Voy. (1799) 31 Several of the chiefs came on board bringing with them hogs, and other refreshments. 1803Nelson 6 Oct. in Nicolas Disp. (1845) V. 225 The Boats employed in bringing the necessary refreshments to the Garrison.
†5. place of refreshment, a place for vessels to renew supplies at. Obs.
1772Ann. Reg. i. 5/1 It was supposed that it would have been an useful station and place of refreshment..for the French East India ships. 1800Asiatic Ann. Reg., Hist. Ind. 20/1 A place of refreshment for the fleets on their passage from India to Europe.
6. The action of refreshing the memory.
1873Forster Life Dickens II. 320 Notwithstanding the refreshment of his memory by this letter.
7. attrib., as refreshment bar, refreshment car, refreshment counter, refreshment house, refreshment room, refreshment saloon, refreshment stall, refreshment stand, refreshment station, refreshment stop, refreshment table, refreshment tent, etc.; Refreshment Sunday, the fourth Sunday in Lent, refection Sunday (cf. 2 c).
1860Dickens Uncomm. Trav. in All Year Round II. 418/2 Crowds of us had sandwiches and ginger-beer at the refreshment-bars..in the Theatre. 1889E. Dowson Let. 17 Mar. (1967) 50, I..searched through the Law Court refreshment bars. 1973‘B. Mather’ Snowline vi. 68 The first class refreshment bar at Sealdah Station.
1886Encycl. Brit. XX. 247/1 Refreshment cars are also attached to trains.
1908Busy Man's Mag. Jan. 89/2 The dance over, he took them to the refreshment counter for a cup of coffee and a sandwich. 1979National Trust Spring 14/3 Nowhere perhaps is the transformation more apparent than in the Tea Room, now freed from the unsightly refreshment counter.
1860Act 23 Vict. c. 27 (title), An Act..for regulating the licensing of Refreshment Houses.
1835Dickens in Evening Chron. 7 Mar. 3/4 The Militia-man..repaired to Bellamy's kitchen—a refreshment room where persons who are not members [of the House of Commons] are admitted on sufferance, as it were. 1849Thackeray Pendennis xxvi, The refreshment-room..was a room set apart for the purposes of supper. 1966G. W. Turner Eng. Lang. in Austral. & N.Z. vii. 157 Because the narrow-gauge lines necessary for a mountainous country preclude corridors, and therefore dining cars, in our trains, the New Zealand refreshment rooms on railway stations are notable. 1976Flintshire Leader 10 Dec. 3/5 Mrs Parry worked in the refreshment room at Chester railway station.
a1828J. Bernard Retrospections of Stage (1830) II. x. 318, I..purchased a cottage..surrounded by..meadowland; the former being small enough for a refreshment saloon. 1936A. Russell Gone Nomad ii. 8, I..sauntered down the corridors to the refreshment saloon at the first suggestion of thirst.
1855Hawthorne Eng. Note-bks. (1870) I. 357, I bought a bun of a little hunchbacked man, who kept a refreshment-stall.
1976Honolulu Star-Bull. 21 Dec. a–3/1, I have two gripes about the refreshment stand operation at Blaisdell Center Arena.
1860Dickens Uncomm. Trav. in All Year Round II. 513/2, I travel by rail⁓road... I am hungry when I arrive at the ‘Refreshment’ station where I am expected.
1977C. McCullough Thorn Birds iii. 67 Our next refreshment stop is a place called Blayney.
1841R. T. Hampson Medii Aevi Cal. II. 94 Dominica Refectionis, Refreshment Sunday, the fourth in Lent. 1912Encycl. Relig. & Ethics V. 770/2 The fourth Sunday in Lent, when the Gospel for the day narrates the Feeding of the Five Thousand, has long been called Dominica Refectionis, or ‘Refreshment Sunday’. 1974[see Læ tare]. 1977Church Times 1 Apr. 5/4 ‘The God of love my Shepherd is’ set in The English Hymnal for Refreshment Sunday.
1860Dickens Uncomm. Trav. in All Year Round II. 514/2 You are going off by railway, from any Terminus... You present to your mind, a picture of the refreshment-table at that terminus. 1885A. Edwardes Girton Girl I. xiv. 276 Let us bend our steps to the refreshment tent. 1928E. Waugh Decline & Fall i. ix. 94 The refreshment tent looked very nice. |