To deny a request, demand, invitation or command; to decline to do or grant what is solicited, claimed or commanded. Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border. Numbers 20:21.

To decline to accept what is offered; as, to refuse an office; to refuse an offer. If they refuse to take the cup at thy hand - Jeremiah 25:28.

To reject; as, to refuse instruction or reproof. Proverbs 10:17. The stone which the builders refused is become the head of the corner. Psalm 118:22.

s as z. To decline to accept; not to comply. Too proud to ask, to humble too refuse.

Literally, refused; rejected; hence, worthless; of no value; left as unworthy of reception; as the refuse parts of stone or timber. Please to bestow on him the refuse letters.

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

Refusal. Obs.