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Ref   /rɛf/   Listen
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noun
1.
(sports) the chief official (as in boxing or American football) who is expected to ensure fair play.  Synonym: referee.






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... that he should speak of each of these solids as a possible world in itself, though upon the whole he inclines to the opinion that they form one world and not five. To suppose that there is an infinite number of worlds, as Democritus (Hippolyt. Ref. Haer. I.) had said, would be, as he satirically observes, 'the characteristic of a very ...
— Timaeus • Plato

... Rome's travelling merchants, told the people of Germany that for "a quarter of a florin" they might "receive letters of indulgence," by means of which they might "introduce into paradise a divine and immortal soul, without its running any risk." Hist. Ref., pp. 56, 242. ...
— A Brief Commentary on the Apocalypse • Sylvester Bliss



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