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1615 E. Sandys Sacred Hymns 52 Yong buls at altars side shal bleed: And offrings burnt th'undying flames refeed.

1884 Manch. Examiner 19 Dec. 5/3 In refeeding a fire in a large grate.

1916 Biol. Bull. 31 21 (table header) The gain in body weight in male rats refed after being held at a constant body weight for short repeated periods.

1928 C. G. Lane Adventures in Big Bush xxi. 232 The men trailed away through the bush, leaving the tree, from the base of which ascended dense volumes of pungent smoke, to slowly burn. During several successive days the fire was refed.

1943 Nutrition Abstr. & Rev. 12 637/2 [The birds] were then refed on maize until the original weight was regained.

1985 I. Opie & P. Opie Singing Game i. 22 Singing games, which had sunk to the lower end of the social scale, were ready to be discovered by the cultured classes and re-fed to the poor.

1993 New Scientist 17 Apr. (Suppl.) 21/1 Psychiatrists..concentrate on ‘refeeding’ anorexics in hospital and measure the success of their treatment in terms of weight gained.

1916 Biol. Bull. 31 43 The spleens of my refed rats appear considerably heavier.

2007 Fitness & Wellness Business Week (Nexis) 3 Jan. 375 The refed rats show persistent and selective reductions in SS mitochondrial mass.

1834 Farmers' Reg. June 258/2 Give..as much as they could eat, but no more, so that their food might be as nearly as possible eaten up at the times of refeeding.

1932 Biol. Abstr. 6 410/2 (heading) Re-feeding after starvation.

2008 A. Malone in M. Marian et al. Clin. Nutrition for Surg. Patients iii. 48 Severe electrolyte and fluid shifts that may result from refeeding after severe weight loss.