Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Refreshment with food and drink.
- noun A light meal or repast.
- noun Reingestion of fecal material to obtain nutrients, as is practiced by rabbits and rats.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Refreshment after hunger or fatigue; a repast: applied especially to meals in religious houses.
- noun In civil law and old English law, repair; restoration to good condition.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Refreshment after hunger or fatigue; a repast; a lunch.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Mental or spiritual
refreshment . - noun Physical
refreshment , especially with food or drink. - noun A
meal , especially a light meal.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a light meal or repast
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Examples
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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.
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This grateful refection is still used in the harvest-field.
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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 2002
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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 2002
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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 1840-1916 1913
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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.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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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.
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The latter kind of refection includes only pork and bacon.
American Notes 1842
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"refection," accompanied by much champagne, which always closed these evenings.
The Marriage of William Ashe Humphry Ward 1885
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Rather, it has everything to do with numbers on the scale and your refection in the mirror.
Tony Horton: Feel-Good Fitness Tony Horton 2012
rolig commented on the word refection
In Canto XV of Don Juan, Byron describes a sumptous dinner, listing all the dishes. But in the midst of his list, he breaks off with this aside:
But I must crowd all into one grand mess
Or mass; for should I stretch into detail,
My Muse would run much more into excess,
Than when some squeamish people deem her frail.
But though a 'bonne vivante,' I must confess
Her stomach 's not her peccant part; this tale
However doth require some slight refection,
Just to relieve her spirits from dejection.
Of course, what he describes, is hardly "some slight refection".
June 8, 2013
raven_in_the_woods commented on the word refection
In the fifth stanza of Robert Browning's "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister"
November 17, 2013