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† enˈfarce, v. Obs.
Also 5 enfarse, 6–7 infarce, -se.
[a. F. enfarc-ir, ad. L. infarcīre.]
1. To stuff
a. (a sucking pig, etc.) with forcemeat;
b. (the belly, oneself) with food.
c1420Liber Cocorum (1862) 36 Put alle in body of þo pygge, Rost hit on broche of irne bygge Enfarsed. 1543Becon New Year's Gift Wks. (1843) 322 How doth the glutton..enfarce it [his belly] with all kind of dainties! 1574Newton Health Mag. 12 If the partie..have not longe afore enfarced himselfe with plentie of meate.
2. transf. and fig.
1531Elyot Gov. i. iii. (1883) I. 27 Redynge this warke, infarced througly with suche histories and sentences. Ibid. ii. vi. II. 55 A man..by furie chaunged in to an horrible figure, his face infarced with rancour. 1533― Cast. Helthe iii. i. (1541) 53 b, The body is infarced eyther with choler, yelowe or blacke, or with fleume. 1542Becon Potat. Lent Wks. 1564 I. 35 b, Souls, replenished and enfarsed with celestiall meate. 1543Grafton Contn. Harding 528 Letters enfarced and replenysshed with all humanytee.
3. To stuff (something) into. Also fig. (contemptuously) to interpolate.
1564Brief Exam. *iiij b, Ye woulde not be so busie to infarce in your bookes the reproche of these men. 1566Drant Horace a iv. b, Thauthors must be full Of fostred arte, infarst in ballasde breste. 1578Banister Hist. Man i. 13 This neither iawe..hath on eche side propper cauities with marey infarced. 1601Holland Pliny xxxv. xiv, The earth thus infarced [between planks] continueth a world of yeres. 1623Lisle ælfric on O. & N.T. Pref. 5 The Latin Copy⁓clarke..hath enfarced these words, Quamvis ipse, etc. 1624F. White Repl. Fisher Pref. 8 He..infarceth here a rapsodie.
Hence enˈfarcing vbl. n.
1623Lisle ælfric on O. & N.T. Pref., By the infarcing afterward of these Epistles..into their bookes of Canons. |