refect
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of refect
1425–75; late Middle English; < Latin refectus, past participle of reficere to make again, renew, equivalent to re- re- + -fec-, combining form of facere to make, do 1 + -tus past participle suffix
Example Sentences
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But the Stratton successes also refect a high degree of practical political ability.
From Time Magazine Archive
"He had the nickname of Dog-Smyth, because he kept no house, but dined at friends' houses, and then desired a bit for his dog, which was to refect himself."
From Project Gutenberg
The knight and the friar, accordingly, proceeded to refect themselves after their ride; the baron looking first at the one and then at the other, scrutinising alternately the serious looks of the knight and the merry face of the friar, till at length, having calmed himself sufficiently to speak, he said, "Courteous knight and ghostly father, I presume you have some other business with me than to eat my beef and drink my canary; and if so, I patiently await your leisure to enter on the topic."
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Wherof amongst all other of his works, that admirable last supper of Christ in Refect.
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