1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Distillation of Oil Falling back into the Vessel, they are dissolved again, and at last, by continual Thickening and Refalls, are wasted and come to nothing.

1998 Record (Kitchener-Waterloo, Ont.) (Nexis) 1 May a14 Well, there it was. The re-rise and the re-fall of Max Webster. Except it didn't take 10 years, it only took the summer.

1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 617/1 He had decreed to procede to the degradation..of the sayd William Sautrie, as refallen into heresie.

1647 T. Fuller Cause Wounded Conscience viii. 53 I..have often re-fallen into the same offence.

1658 J. Webb tr. G. de Costes de La Calprenède Hymen's Præludia: 8th Pt. viii. i. 4 She was againe re-fallen into that captivity from whence they thought her entirely delivered.

1809 Harleian Misc. IV. 200 To be brief, the Swedes shew, that they have no great desire to repass the sea, any more than have the Germans to refall into their wonted slavery.

1821 J. W. Bayley Hist. & Antiq. Tower of London I. ii. 231 The learned Selden..and the famous Prynne..were both..well acquainted with the importance of the treasures confided to their care; but, it is probable that the records had refallen into confusion before their times.

1620 T. Shelton tr. M. de Cervantes 2nd Pt. Don Quixote iv. x. 137 Stumbling here, falling there, getting up again on the other side, and re~falling on this.

1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 173 For one of a perfect sight to fall and refall so foulely..is a thing altogether prodigious.

1776 W. Kenrick et al. tr. Comte de Buffon Nat. Hist. Animals, Veg., & Minerals VI. xv. 124 The resolving of the vapours that the sun raises during summer, which refall in plentiful rains during autumn.

1836 Times 6 June 4/5 On this report the first reproach refalls on itself.

1875 ‘M. Twain’ Sketches New & Old 41 You shall see the frog turn in the air like a grease-biscuit, make one summersault, sometimes two,..and re-fall upon his feet like a cat.

1937 Art Bull. 19 46 The lower border in the way it falls and refalls so many times departs completely from the above-mentioned carvings.

2002 Arkansas Democrat-Gaz. (Nexis) 20 Nov. 37 Dad's head snapped backward, refell forward, chin to his chest.