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† reˈfel, v. Obs.
Also 6 refelle, 6–7 refell.
[ad. L. refellĕre to disprove, refute, f. re- re- + fallĕre to deceive, etc.: the sense of the compound is unusual. Senses 2 and 3 are purely English applications of the word.]
1. trans. To refute, confute, disprove (an argument, opinion, error, etc.); to prove to be false or untenable. (Very common in the 16–17th c.)
1530Palsgr. 682/1, I can nat refell your argument, it is so evydent. a1540Barnes Wks. (1573) 207/2 Was not this a charitable argument to refell myne aunswere with ? 1578Banister Hist. Man viii. 98 It is most certainly otherwise, and his opinion therein easely refelled. 1630Prynne Anti-Armin. 77 Such of those Tenets which haue beene constantly oppugned, refelled, disclaimed. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. xi. viii. §60 He took occasion to refell that slander, which some cast on Lecture-Preachers. 1686Goad Celest. Bodies i. ix. 33 Who can refell this with any better Argument than a Smile? 1713Bentley Rem. Disc. Freethink. ii. §47. 259 Not to coin Articles, but to explain them, and refell the adversaries objections. a1734North Exam. i. ii. §80 (1740) 72 It was the Case of a Peer,..else the Pretence had been refelled upon the Opening.
b. To refute or confute (a person).
1553Bale Gardiner's De Vera Obed. F viij b, To refelle him yt calleth him selfe chief untruly. 1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. ii. (1882) 72 Neither..able to..explane the scriptures, nor yet to refell and conuince the aduersarie. 1610Willet Hexapla Daniel 268 Junius may be refelled by his own chronicle. 1657Reeve God's Plea 21 He is refelled, and he hath instantly done with anger and argument. 1692South 12 Serm. (1717) V. 480 Why then did not those profound Rabbies..baffle and refel these Babblers..?
c. absol.
1598R. Grenewey Tacitus, Ann. iii. xiv. (1622) 85 Tiberius himselfe..asked him many questions; not giuing liberty to refell or replie. 1654Gataker Disc. Apol. 83 The manner of them both is rather to rail and revile, then by arguing and reasoning to refel and refute. 1697tr. Burgersdicius' Logic ii. xviii. 85 Places from like and unlike are of no great Use to prove or refel.
d. To cast doubt upon, deny. rare—1.
c1611Chapman Iliad ix. 36 As thou then didst refell My valour first of all the hoast.
2. To reject; to refuse to accept, admit, or give heed to (a request, a thing offered, etc.).
a1548Hall Chron., Hen. IV 28 This my lowly requeste..(whiche I thynke your clemencie will not reiect nor refell). 1583Fulke Defence xv. 398 The other signification of imposing handes is gone, which Mayster Whitgift defendeth, and the popular election is brought in, which he refelleth. 1598Drayton Heroic. Ep. iv. 21, I once determin'd, still to haue been mute, Onely by Silence to refell thy Sute. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 599 Your offered favours..I deserve not; neither is my present estate and desert towards you such, as that I dare or ought to refell the same.
3. To repel, repulse, force or drive back, repress:
a. a person.
a1548Hall Chron., Hen. V 56 b, He determined as he might to refell and withstande the comen enemies of the realme. 1556J. Heywood Spider & F. lx. 95 They either had miserable ouer throw In rebelling, or streight after refelled. 1621B. Jonson Gipsies Metam. Wks. (Rtldg.) 626/1 Friends, not to refel ye, Or any way quell ye [etc.]. c1650Robin Hood & Tanner's Dau. xxii. in Child Ballads I. 110/2 The tanners bold they fought right well,..But Robin did them both refell.
b. an attempt, undertaking, danger, etc.
a1548Hall Chron., Hen. V 22 b, Not one of them would take hede how to resist and refell the present ieopardye which was commyng out of England. Ibid., Edw. IV 192 All enterprises afterward against hym attempted had either evill successe, or were sone refelled. 1573Satir. Poems Reform. xli. 51 Sic foly faill not to refell. 1584Hudson Du Bartas' Judith vi. 102 One while her feare refeld her first entent. 1652Benlowes Theoph. ix. xlii, Binde up what's loose, what's rash new-mould, refell what's ill.
c. To clear (the mind) of something. rare—1.
1575Appius & Virginia A j b, Refel your minde of mourning plaints, deare mother rest your minde.
Hence † reˈfeller, one who refels or refutes.
1652Gaule Magastrom. Ep. Ded., A teacher of truth,..a refeller of falshood. |