1.To deny, as a request, demand, invitation, or command; to decline to do or grant. "That never yet refused your hest."
2.(Mil.) To throw back, or cause to keep back (as the center, a wing, or a flank), out of the regular aligment when troops are about to engage the enemy; as, to refuse the right wing while the left wing attacks.
3.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."
4.To disown. (Obs.) "Refuse thy name."
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