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refuge |
4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Refuge \Ref"uge\ (r?f"?j), n. [F. r['e]fuge, L. refugium fr refugere to flee back pref. re- + figere SEe {Fugitive}.] 1. Shelter or protection from danger or distress. Rocks, dens, and caves! But I in none of these Find place or refuge. --Milton. We might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us --Heb. vi 18. 2. That which shelters or protects from danger, or from distress or calamity; a stronghold which protects by its strength, or a sanctuary which secures safety by its sacredness; a place inaccessible to an enemy. The high hills are a refuger the wild goats. --Ps. civ. 18. The Lord also will be a refuge for the oppressed. --Ps. ix 9. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Refuge \Ref"uge\ (r?f"?j), v. t. To shelter; to protect. [Obs.] From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: refuge n 1: a safe place "He ran to safety" [syn: {safety}] 2: something or someone turned to for assistance or security: "his only recourse was the police"; "took refuge in lying" [syn: {recourse}, {resort}] 3: a shelter from danger or hardship [syn: {sanctuary}, {asylum}] 4: act of turning to for assistance: "have recourse to the courts"; "an appeal to his uncle was his last resort" [syn: {recourse}, {resort}] From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]: REFUGE, n. Anything assuring protection to one in peril. Moses and Joshua provided six cities of refuge -- Bezer, Golan, Ramoth, Kadesh, Schekem and Hebron -- to which one who had taken life inadvertently could flee when hunted by relatives of the deceased. This admirable expedient supplied him with wholesome exercise and enabled them to enjoy the pleasures of the chase; whereby the soul of the dead man was appropriately honored by observations akin to the funeral games of early Greece.
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