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A light meal or repast
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refection
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Refection \Re*fec"tion\ (r?*f?k"sh?n), n. [L. refectio: cf. F. r['e]fection. See Refect , Fact .] Refreshment after hunger or fatigue; a repast; a lunch. [His] feeble spirit inly felt refection. --Spenser. Those Attic nights, and those refections of ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Mental or spiritual refreshment. 2 Physical refreshment, especially with food or drink. 3 A meal, especially a light meal.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a light meal or repast
Usage examples of refection.
Hyland took a piece of the rejected caraway cake without enthusiasm, hunger apparently contending with a sense of the indecorum of this refection in the presence of the dead.
The young sensualist was in an ecstasy of gratitude to his late refection, and the slightest word recalled him to it.
The evening was made pleasant with sacred music, and the fatigues of two long services repaired by such simple refections as would not turn the holy day into a day of labor.
But Thrasillus was very importunate, and at length brought to passe, that at the intercession of the Parents and friends of Charites, she somewhat refreshed her fallen members with refection of meate and baine.