† refriˈcation Obs. rare.
[f. prec. on L. types: cf. frication.]
The action of rubbing open or rubbing up again. Also fig.
| 1590 P. Barrough Meth. Physick iii. xiv. (1639) 123 The eating of sharp things..causeth a certaine refrication and rubbing open again of the scarre. 1633 Bp. Hall Hard Texts, N.T. 337 In these legall sacrifices there is a continuall refrication of the memory of those sinnes. |