Definition of "refel"

refel

verb
third-person singular simple present refels, present participle refelling, simple past and past participle refelled
1. (obsolete, transitive) To refute, disprove (an argument); to confute (someone).
  Quotations
  Averroes scoffs at Galen for his reasons, and brings five arguments to refel them: so doth Hercules de Saxonia […]
  1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, partition 1, section 3, member III
  How I persuaded, how I pray'd, and kneel'd,How he refell'd me, and how I reply'd […]
  c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)