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Refres(c)h(e)ing, -yng(e, vbl. n. Also: refress-. [ME and e.m.E. refreischinge (Wyclif), -freschynge (c1400) act of refreshing, also fresh supplies of food (1480–).] The act or action of refreshing, in various senses of Refre(s)ch(e v.; refreshment given or received. a1400 Leg. S. xxxii 738.
[The fire] disesit thame na thinge Bot as baume gud [? erron. for geif] refreschynge ?1423 Letter to James I in Edinb. Chart. 213.
And as tuechand a portion of our gudis to be lent to the refressyng of yhur hey estate [etc.] c1515 Asl. MS I 75/8.
In helpe and refreschyng of the pure 1533 Boece 34.
He socht victualis and bestiall for refresching of his folkis 1560 Acts II 529/1.
We … beleif that the tyme of refrescheing and restitutioun of all thingis sall cum [etc.] 1594 Charteris Wall. Pref. 170.
Weryit for fault of meit & refresching and laiking of sleip a1658 Durham Comm. Rev. 146.
When parents and children … haue not for the refreshing of themselves and their families
b. Supplies (of food, etc.). 1570 Leslie 211.
Tending be thame to send sum pulder and uther refreshing to the toune
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