Meaning of Refection | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Mental or spiritual refreshment.
   countable, uncountable
2. Physical refreshment, especially with food or drink.
   countable, uncountable
3. A meal, especially a light meal.
   countable, uncountable

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Examples

“For beſide the common way and road of reception by the root, there may be a refection and imbibition from without; For gentle ſhowrs refreſh plants, though they enter⟳ not their roots; [...]”

“[S]in and sorrow it were, considering the hardships of this noble and gallant knight, no whit mentioning or weighing those we ourselves have⟳ endured, if we were now either to advance or retard the hour of refection beyond the time when the viands are fit to be set⟳ before us.”

“[T]he cooks were laying a refection before him of sack and anchovies and garlic sausage and gammons of bacon and - this was the important item - a great pudding dish out of which rose the noble dome of a crisp brown pie-crust.”

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