REFUSE

v. n. a.

8 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To deny, as a request, demand, invitation, or command; to decline to do or grant. That never yet refused your hest. Chaucer.

2.
v.

To throw back, or cause to keep back (as the center, a wing, or a flank), out of the regular aligment when troops aras, to refuse the right wing while the left wing attacks.

3.
v.

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.
v.

To disown. [Obs.] "Refuse thy name." Shak.

5.
v.

To deny compliance; not to comply. Too proud to ask, too humble to refuse. Garth. If ye refuse . . . ye shall be devoured with the sword. Isa. i. 20.

6.
n.

Refusal. [Obs.] Fairfax.

7.
n.

That which is refused or rejected as useless; waste or worthless matter.

8.
a.

Refused; rejected; hence; left as unworthy of acceptance; of no value; worthless. Everything that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly. 1. Sam. xv. 9.

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