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Definition of Refell
1. refall [v] - See also: refall
Lexicographical Neighbors of Refell
Literary usage of Refell
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"To refell, v. To refute; re/ello, Latin. Seldom now used. Here many of the greatest
of the land Accus'd were of ihe act, ..."
2. A Select Collection of Old Plays: In Twelve Volumes by Robert Dodsley, Isaac Reed, Octavius Gilchrist, John Payne Collier (1825)
"... with arguments to seek to refell that which with their deity the gods cannot
resist; and let this suffice to answer thee, that it is a king that loveth, ..."
3. Sermons Preached at Boyle's Lecture;: Remarks Upon a Discourse of Free by Richard Bentley, Isaac Newton (1838)
"... and refell• the adversaries' objections; so the schoolmen, in the popish times,
had recourse to the Peripatetic, the sole system then in vogue. ..."
4. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1850)
"refell. . To refute. (Lot. ... will not reject nor refell Hall's Union, 1548, Hen.
IV. f. 28. ..."
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