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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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