Refection

//ɹɪˈfɛkʃən// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Mental or spiritual refreshment. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    a light meal or repast wordnet
  3. 3
    Physical refreshment, especially with food or drink. countable, uncountable

    "For beſide the common way and road of reception by the root, there may be a refection and imbibition from without; For gentle ſhowrs refreſh plants, though they enter not their roots; [...]"

  4. 4
    A meal, especially a light meal. countable, uncountable

    "[T]he cooks were laying a refection before him of sack and anchovies and garlic sausage and gammons of bacon and - this was the important item - a great pudding dish out of which rose the noble dome of a crisp brown pie-crust."

Etymology

From French réfection, from Latin refectiōnem, accusative singular of refectiō (“recovery, refection”), from reficiō (“restore, renew”).

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