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re⋅fec⋅tion

  [ri-fek-shuhn]
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–noun
1. refreshment, esp. with food or drink.
2. a portion of food or drink; repast.
Origin:
1300–50; ME refeccioun < L refectiōn- (s. of refectiō) restoration, equiv. to refect(us) (see refect ) + -iōn- -ion

Related forms:
re⋅fec⋅tive, adjective
re⋅fec⋅to⋅ri⋅al  [ree-fek-tawr-ee-uhl, -tohr-] , adjective
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re·fec·tion   (rĭ-fěk'shən)   
n.  
  1. Refreshment with food and drink.
  2. A light meal or repast.
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Refection

Re*fec"tion\ (r?*f?k"sh?n), n. [L. refectio: cf. F. r['e]fection. See Refect, Fact.] Refreshment after hunger or fatique; a repast; a lunch.

[His] feeble spirit inly felt refection. --Spenser.

Those Attic nights, and those refections of the gods. --Curran.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Main Entry: re·fec·tion
Pronunciation: ri-'fek-sh&n
Function: noun
1 : satisfaction of hunger and thirst
2 a : the eating of feces especially by the animal producing them b : spontaneous recovery of vitamin-depleted animals on a high starch diet presumably resulting from consumption of fecesenriched with vitamins synthesized by intestinal bacteria
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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