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▪ I. refectory, n.|rɪˈfɛktərɪ|
Also 6–7 -orie.
[ad. med.L. refectōrium (Du Cange), f. reficĕre: see refect v. and -ory1. Cf. F. réfectoire and refrectore.]
a. A room for refreshment; esp. in religious houses and colleges, the hall or chamber in which the meals take place.
The stressing ˈrefectory was at one time somewhat prevalent (see Walker's note, and is still used by some Roman Catholics.)
1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 241/2 There cam two yong men of y⊇ same habite & forme whiche entrid in to y⊇ refectory or fraitour. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 65 Seruynge at meet & in other places, redynge in y⊇ refectory, or in the chapyter hous at collation. 1582N. T. (Rhem.) Mark xiv. 14 The Maister saith Where is my refectorie, where I may eate the Pasche..? 1617Moryson Itin. i. 95 Their refectory or place where the Monkes eat, is faire and large. 1687Dryden Hind & P. iii. 530 He..cells, and refectories did prepare, And large provisions laid of winter fare. 1756Nugent Gr. Tour, France IV. 71 In the refectories where the soldiers eat, most of the famous battles and sieges..are painted on the walls. 1797Mrs. Radcliffe Italian vi, She passed through the refectory where the nuns had just returned from vespers. 1820Scott Abbot xii, A spacious chamber, which had once been the refectory of the convent. 1879Sir G. Scott Lect. Archit. I. 296 Round this cloister you still trace the plan of the refectory.
b. ellipt. for refectory table.
1913L. V. Lockwood Furniture Collector's Gloss. 51/2 Refectory, an early long, narrow table upon which was served a meal.
transf.1876Geo. Eliot Dan. Der. xiv, To tell of the food that was eaten in that green refectory.
c. attrib., as refectory-bell, refectory man; refectory table: see quots. 1948, 1960.
1772Nugent tr. Hist. Friar Gerund I. 544 An old lay brother..who had been refectory man above forty years. 1850S. Dobell Roman v. Poet. Wks. (1875) 72 Soft excitements of refectory-bell. 1923H. Stanley-Barrett Old World Galleries A.B.C. Hist. Eng. Antique Furnit. (ed. 2) 118 The Elizabethan trestle refectory table usually had heavily carved bulbous legs. 1928Daily Express 18 Apr. 4, Refectory tables..were the principal pieces of furniture in medieval and Tudor times. 1948Antique Collector Aug. 127/1 In the late 16th and 17th centuries the common dining-table was an oblong one with either four or six turned legs connected by square sectioned stretchers. In contemporary inventories it was usually called a ‘long table’, but in order to conjure up a picture of jovial monks dining, the long table has been renamed a ‘refectory table’, which inaccurate term is often used today. 1960H. Hayward Antique Coll. 235/1 Refectory table, popular modern term for a long table of the type in use in the second half of the 16th cent. until the Restoration. 1971D. Francis Bonecrack iv. 51 We sat..with our feet up on a sixteenth century Spanish walnut refectory table. 1976Cumberland News 3 Dec. 29/5 (Advt.), We are most interested in old oak furniture—dressers, court cupboards—kitchen presses, bedding chests, kitchen and refectory tables as well.
▪ II. † reˈfectory, a. Obs.—1
[ad. L. refectōrius (4th c.): see refect v. and -ory2.]
Refreshing.
1691–8Norris Pract. Disc. (1711) III. 123 This is that Divine Consolation.., that Refectory Grace. |