refrication

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Latin refricare to rub again.

NounEdit

refrication (uncountable)

1. (obsolete, nonce word) A rubbing up afresh; a brightening.

   A continual refrication of the memory. — Bishop Hall.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for refrication in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)