rĕ-fīgo, xi, xum, 3, v. a., to unfix, unfasten, unloose, tear or pluck down, pull out or off (class.).
I 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.—
II Transf.
1 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.— *
2 To take away , remove : quo facilius nostra refigere deportareque tuto possimus, Curius ap. Cic. Fam. 7, 29, 1.