| 单词 | to take refection |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto take (one's, some, etc.) refection to take (one's, some, etc.) refection: to take (one's, some, etc.) refreshment or nourishment, to take food and drink. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > [verb (reflexive)] > refresh with food or drink to take (one's, some, etc.) refectionc1440 refect1646 c1440 S. Scrope tr. C. de Pisan Epist. of Othea (St. John's Cambr.) (1970) 63 The lif of the bodi may not be sustened with-oute that he take his refeccion bodily [v.r. bodely ffoode & sustenaunce]. 1484 W. Caxton tr. G. de la Tour-Landry Bk. Knight of Tower (1971) xlix. 71 After they had taken their refection & wel dronken. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 823 He was so diseased in his stomacke that skant he could take eyther refection or rest. 1587 R. Hakluyt tr. R. de Laudonnière Notable Hist. Foure Voy. Florida f. 8 They would rather haue perished with hunger and thirst then haue taken their refection at any mans hand but mine. 1634 Malory's Arthur (1816) II. 276 When he was armed, she prayed him for to take his refection. 1756 A. Butler Lives Saints I. 98 Coming to take his refection, he often burst into tears, and was obliged to leave..the table without touching any nourishment. 1836 Dublin Univ. Mag. Aug. 187/2 While taking some refection in the public room of an inn, he enters into conversation with an inhabitant of the place. 1924 E. O. Hoppé In Gipsy Camp & Royal Palace xvi. 173 As I took my refection, served by a sloe-eyed girl smiling and kindly, I surveyed the oxcarts creeping slowly along the dusty road. < as lemmas |
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