refection

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The young sensualist was in an ecstasy of gratitude to his late refection, and the slightest word recalled him to it.

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  1. noun Refreshment with food and drink.
  2. noun A light meal or repast.

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  • Our conversations seldom began till after a supper so very solid and substantial as led us to think that with him it was a dinner By the help of this refection, and no other incentive to hilarity than lemonade, Johnson was in a short time after our assembling transformed into a new creature; his habitual melancholy and lassitude of spirit gave way; his countenance brightened.' —  Life Of Johnson, Vol. 1
  • I said, when the refection was in progress. —  The Ghost A Modern Fantasy
  • For she was wont to take her refection, and to sleep, with a certain holy widow. —  The Latin ; Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints
  • "Hath he overeaten at mid-day refection, and so is not able to sleep, that he cannot let honest men enjoy greater peace than himself What folly!" —  Red Axe
  • I have asked permission of the prior to minister your refection, and bring you thereby the first news of the pageant 1st Monk. —  The Saint's Tragedy
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  1. from Middle English refection, refeccyon, from Old French refection, French réfection =Provencal refectio =Spanish refeccion =Portuguese refeição, refecção = Italian refezione, from Latin refectio (n-), a restoring, refreshment, remaking, from reficere, past participle refectus, restore, remake: see refect.
 

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/rəˈfɛkʃən/
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