What is "refuged"

Usage examples of "refuged".

The scullion, wooden-faced outwardly but gratified inwardly, departed without haste to the kitchen, and Cadfael, released from tension into the languor of relief, remembered Vespers, and refuged in the chapel.

He refuged in the deep doorway to the undercroft, and stretched his ears for voices from above, and thought that he caught wordless murmurings, as though the aim was to keep everything of this night’s activities secret.

Too well I remembered that which had prowled around the ring when Oomark and I had refuged there and what I had encountered among the mounds.