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Meaning of REFECTION

Pronunciation:  ri'fekshun

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: [n]  a light meal or repast
 
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 See Also: meal, repast

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Re*fec"tion\ (r?*f?k"sh?n), n. [L. refectio: cf. F.
r['e]fection. See {Refect}, {Fact}.]
Refreshment after hunger or fatique; a repast; a lunch.
      [His] feeble spirit inly felt refection. --Spenser.
      Those Attic nights, and those refections of the gods.
                                               --Curran.
 

 

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