(verb) : rĕ-fīgo, xi, xum, 3
* To unfix, unfasten, unloose, tear or pluck down, pull out or off (class.).
* Lit.: num figentur rursus eae tabulae, quas vos decretis vestris refixistis?have taken down,Cic. Phil. 12, 5, 12: affixis hostium spoliis, quae nec emptori refigere liceret,Plin. 35, 2, 2, § 7; so, clipeo refixo,Hor. C. 1, 28, 11: clipeum de poste Neptuni sacro,Verg. A. 5, 360: signa Parthorum templis,Hor. Ep. 1, 18, 56: clipeos captos in bello,Sil. 10, 601: dentes,to pull out, extract,Cels. 6, 15 fin.: refigere se crucibus,Sen. Vit. Beat. 19 fin.; cf.: refixum corpus interfectoris cremavit,Just. 9, 7, 11. — Poet.: caelo refixa sidera,loosened, falling down,Verg. A. 5, 527: non hasta refixas vendit opes,the plundered goods,Claud. IV. Cons. Hon. 497.
* Transf.
* To take down the tables of the laws suspended in public, i. e. to annul, abolish, abrogate laws: acta M. Antonii rescidistis, leges refixistis,Cic. Phil. 13, 3, 5; cf.: cujus aera refigere debeamus,id. Fam. 12, 1 fin.: fixit leges pretio atque refixit, for a bribe, Verg, A. 6, 622.— *
* To take away, remove: quo facilius nostra refigere deportareque tuto possimus, Curius ap. Cic. Fam. 7, 29, 1.

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