REFSA

discipline

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(að, or -ta, -tr), v. to punish, with dat. of the person (r. e-m); with acc. of the thing (r. níðingsverk).

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að, pret. refsti, Ól. 5; part. refst, Karl. 293; but refsat, Fms. viii. 240: [Dan. rævse]:—to punish, with dat. of the person; refsa e-m, vii. 218, viii. 240, Karl. 319: with acc. of the thing, refsa níðings-verk Fms. xi. 241, Sks. 83; r. rán ok stuldi, Ól. 5; r. e-m rangindi sín, Fb. i. 363.

2. with acc. of the person; refsa e-n. Anecd. (but rare.)

II. to enquire, see refla above, which is, may be, the original sense of the word, from which to punish is derived, cp. Lat. quaestio.