Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Refreshment with food and drink.
- n. A light meal or repast.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Refreshment after hunger or fatigue; a repast: applied especially to meals in religious houses.
- n. In civil law and old English law, repair; restoration to good condition.
Wiktionary
- n. Mental or spiritual refreshment.
- n. Physical refreshment, especially with food or drink.
- n. A meal, especially a light meal.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. Refreshment after hunger or fatigue; a repast; a lunch.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a light meal or repast
Etymologies
- From French réfection, from Latin refectiōnem, accusative singular of refectiō ("recovery, refection"), from reficiō ("restore, renew"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“You see his reflection in a mirror, but the refection is moving and doing the same things he is, about a second after he does it.”
“This grateful refection is still used in the harvest-field.”
“For in the composing of this lordly book, I never lost nor bestowed any more, nor any other time than what was appointed to serve me for taking of my bodily refection, that is, whilst I was eating and drinking.”
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
“The twofold number of the Eucharistic elements of bread and wine does not interfere with the unity of the sacrament; for the idea of refection embraces both eating and drinking, nor do our meals in consequence double their number.”
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy
“I declined the offer of what Patten calls "refection" also, tho 'I needed it on coming down stairs; for it had pained me very much to get thro' that interview.”
“The latter kind of refection includes only pork and bacon.”
“refection," accompanied by much champagne, which always closed these evenings.”
“Rather, it has everything to do with numbers on the scale and your refection in the mirror.”
“The "true freedom" Carter was talking about, the freedom afforded by a capacity for honest self-refection and an awakened consciousness, was the subject of Darkness on the Edge of Town, released a year before the President's speech.”
The Huffington Post: Peter Birkenhead: Meet the Old Boss: Springsteen Revisits Darkness
“I tell him to come in anyway, and he stands behind me, staring at my refection in the hole I've made in the mirror.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘refection’.
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phrontistery-r
from phrontistery.info
rya, rutilant, ruthful, rutherford, ruth, rusticity, rusticate, Russophobia, Russophile, russet, russel, rushlight and 514 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Food--and our love for it!
words involving food and enjoying food
refection, gourmand, hedonist, foodie, gustation, gustatory, pescatarian, piscatory, postprandial, abligurition, haslet, epicurean and 5 more...
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Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young ...
These words are from Samuel Richardson's novel Clarissa, Or, The History of a Young Lady, 1747-48
adumbrate, virago, varlet, rencounter, akimbo, palliate, amanuensis, amok, equipage, cully, se'ennight, resentments and 560 more...
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Thomas's Words
argus-eyed, chasmophile, extirpate, aperitif, outre, repartee, schadenfreude, insouciant, joie de vivre, callipygian, cavil, ad hominem and 147 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, R
retinol, rectory, rhubarb, rancor, recension, rood, redivivus, roborate, redound, ripsnorting, ragtag, recruit and 250 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3248 more...
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Notepad
Things I want to remember for later.
recherche, tatterdemalion, lorgnette, hardihood, frippery, mountebank, gewgaw, slumbrous, spatterdashes, callithump, obfuscatory, supererogatory and 58 more...
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You don't sound like what you mean
pulchritude, bucolic, behoove, bathos, honey-bread, rakeshame, aguish, pogrom, temerity, fungible, prepossessed, jejune and 1 more...
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Nakoo's list of useful words.
repudiate, shrewish, spurious, superfluous, circuitous, plagiarize, inculcate, convoluted, unctuous, plethora, belie, expurgate and 64 more...
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Ancient Literature
things i've read in class
sedulous, refection, paragon, avouch, sarpler, billevezees, jolthead, viedazes
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