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单词 refraination
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refrainationn.

Forms: 1500s refreynation, 1600s refraination.
Origin: Apparently a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymons: refranation n., refrenation n.
Etymology: Apparently a variant of either refranation n. or refrenation n. (although the latter is apparently first attested slightly later in the relevant sense), influenced by refrain v. (compare α. forms at that entry).
Astrology. Obsolete.
= refranation n.
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refraination?1583
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?1583 F. Wither tr. C. Dariot Breefe Introd. Astrologicall Iudgem. Starres viii. sig. Ev Prohibition or let is done by retrogradation or going backward..: and this lette is properlye called a Refreynation [L. refrenatio], or holding backe.
1657 W. Eland Tutor to Astrol. 34 Refraination is, when a planet is applying to another, either by conjunction or aspect, and before he comes to conjunction he becomes Retrograde.
1679 J. Moxon Math. made Easie 129 Refraination, 'Tis a kind of weakning to a Planet which is called so by Astrologers when a Planet going to an Aspect with another, before they come up to it becomes Retrograde, and thereby is as it were pluckt back.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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