† reflac, revelaik Obs.
Forms: 1–2 réaflác, 2 refloc, 3 ræflac, raflak, reflac, 4 reuelaic(k, -laike, 5 Sc. reyflake, revelayk.
[OE. réaflác, f. réaf reif + -lác -lock (cf. wedlock).]
Rapine, robbery, reavery.
| c 888 K. ælfred Boeth. xxvi. §2 ælc bit þæs reaflaces þe him on ᵹenumen bið. c 1000 ælfric Hom. II. 102 Þa ælmessan þe of reaflace beoð ᵹesealde. c 1154 O.E. Chron. (Laud MS.) an. 1135, On þis kinges time wes al unfrið & yfel & ræflac. c 1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 79 Ȝif þe unfele man..teð him to unwrenches to stele oðer refloc oðer swikedom. a 1225 Ancr. R. 208 Etholden oðres hure, ouer his rihte terme, nis hit strong reflac? c 1250 Gen. & Ex. 436 Ðeft and reflac ðhugte him no same. a 1300 Cursor M. 27825 Þe first sin es o couaitise..O þis cums blindnes and tresun, Reuelaic, theft, extorsiun. 14.. in Sc. Acts Parl. (1844) I. 381 Of soyt to be mayd of reyflake and uþir crymis. Alsua na man aw to be herd of revelayk na of haymesokyn. |