Refundo, refundis, refúdi, refûsum, pen. prod refúndere. To melt: to dissolue: to cast out againe.Glaciem refundit Luna. Plin. It melteth or dissolueth ise.Refundunt eadem. Ci. They cast out the same againe.Quod hesterna cæna ingurgitauerar palam refudit.He opÊly did parbrake or vomit vp againe, &c.Vrna refudit aquas. Propert. Aequor refundit in æquor.Ouid.The seaby reflowing casteth water againe into the sea.Vnda refunditur. Sta. Water is cast out againe. Refundere. Vlp. To yelde or paie home againe.Id erat non tam accipere quam refundere beneficium.As to requite and render a good turne.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
rĕ-fundo, fūdi, fūsum, 3, v. a., to pour back; to pour out, cause to overflow, etc. (mostly poet. and in post-Aug. prose). I.Lit.: quibus (vaporibus) altae renovataeque stellae atque omnis aether refundunt eodem et rursum trahunt indidem, Cic. N. D. 2, 46, 118: aequor refundit in aequor, Ov. M. 11, 488: ponto refuso, Verg. G. 2, 163: sanguinem, v. B. infra: luna glaciem refundit,
, Verg. A. 1, 126; cf.: Acheronte refuso, id. ib. 6, 107: unda refunditur, Stat. Th. 9, 465: Tiberis refusus, Tac. H. 1, 86: refusus Oceanus, i. e. flowing back into itself (the Homeric a)yo/rroos), Verg. A. 7, 225; Luc. 8, 797.— B.Transf., of things not liquid: refunditur alga,
is flung back
, Verg. A. 7, 590: intestina, Cels. 7, 16: quam libenter tot spoliatis, tot trucidatis sanguinem et bona refudisses, i. e. hadst given back, restored, Plin. Pan. 40, 4; cf.: refudimus Nilo suas copias, id. ib. 31, 3: quod accepit, Dig. 12, 4, 5 fin.: fructus venditori, ib. 18, 2, 6: invicem impensas, ib. 19, 5, 5, 4: huic dabis loricam, quam refundat, Val. Imp. ap. Treb. Pol. Claud. 14, 6; Veg. Mil. 1, 20. — Poet.: refusa Conjugis in gremium,
stretched out
,
lying at length
, Luc. 8, 105: refusis in spatium immensum campis, i.e.
outspread
, Sil. 13, 322.— II.Trop.: fletu super ora refuso,
pouring forth
, Ov. M. 11, 657 (dub.; al. profuso): necem in Tatiani consilia, i. e.
to infuse
, Spart. Hadr. 9: per cujus oboedientiam humani generis culpa deleta, refusa justitia est, checked, satisfied, Ambros. Apol. David, 17, 81.