refections

Noun

refection (countable and uncountable, plural refections)

1. Mental or spiritual refreshment.
2. Physical refreshment, especially with food or drink.
   • 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; [...]1658, Thomas Browne, “The Garden of Cyrus. […]. Chapter IIII.”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […], →OCLC, pages 163–164
3. A meal, especially a light meal.
   • Brackett, ardently solicitous that Mr. Linthwaite and Mr. Semmerby should not suffer by these unwonted adventures, had roused up his cook and caused a refection to be ready at three o'clock, which, he said, he scarcely knew whether to call very early breakfast or very late supper.1923, Joseph Smith Fletcher, chapter 31, in The Lost Mr. Linthwaite, page 256

   Synonyms:

   repast