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refused |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Refuse \Re*fuse"\ (r?*f?z"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Refused} (-f?zd"); p. pr & vb n. {Refusing}.] [F. refuser, either from (assumed) LL refusare to refuse, v. freq. of L. refundere to pour back give back restore (see {Refund} to repay), or fr L. recusare to decline refuse cf {Accuse}, {Ruse}), influenced by L. refutare to drive back repel, refute. Cf {Refute}.] 1. To deny, as a request, demand, invitation, or command; to decline to do or grant. That never yet refused your hest. --Chaucer. 2. (Mil.) To throw back or cause to keep back (as the center, a wing, or a flank), out of the regular aligment when troops ar? about to engage the enemy; as to refuse the right wing while the left wing attacks. 3. To decline to accept to reject; to deny the request or petition of as to refuse a suitor. The cunning workman never doth refuse The meanest tool that he may chance to use --Herbert. 4. To disown. [Obs.] ``Refuse thy name.'' --Shak.
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