Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of refocillating or imparting new vigor; restoration of strength by refreshment; also, that which causes such restoration.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Restoration of strength by refreshment.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete The
restoration ofstrength by means ofrefreshment .
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From the Latin refocillātiō.
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Examples
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I need for myself solace and refocillation of animal spirits, instead of being in a condition of offering it to others. '
The Opium Habit Horace B. Day
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I need for myself, solace and refocillation of animal spirits, instead of being in a condition of offering it to others.
Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey Cottle, Joseph 1847
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I need for myself, solace and refocillation of animal spirits, instead of being in a condition of offering it to others.
Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey Joseph Cottle 1811
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