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▪ I. † fage, v. Obs. exc. dial.
Also 4 faage, 5 fagg, 9 dial. fadge.
[Of unknown origin; not identical with fadge v.]
1. trans. To coax. flatter; to beguile, soothe.
c1340Cursor M. 7622 (Fairf.) Dauid come him to fage. a1400–50Alexander 4669 For ȝe bot fage ay þe flesche & felsen it wele. c1470Harding Chron. lxvi. ii, Such subtyll meane to fage the kyng he fande.
2. absol. or intr. To coax, flatter, toady; to speak coaxingly to.
c1380Wyclif Serm. Sel. Wks. I. 44 It is manere of ypocritis..to fage and to speke pleasantli to men, but for yvel entent. 1382― Judg. xiv. 15 Faage to thi man. c1430Lydg. Bochas i. xiii. (1554) 25 b, Women can flatter and fage. c1460― Order of Fools 66 He that falsluy wul fage. 1471Ripley Comp. Alch. v. in Ashm. (1652) 159 The Fox can fagg and fayne. 1881Evans Leicestersh. Gloss., Fadge, to ‘toady’, to play the parasite.
Hence † ˈfager, a flatterer; also ˈfaging vbl. n. and ppl. a. Obs. exc. dial.
1435Misyn Fire of Love (E.E.T.S.) 20 Fagiars & bakbitars. 1483Cath. Angl. 120 A Fager, adulator. c1380Wyclif Serm. Sel. Wks. I. 56 Þei spaken fagynge words as ypocritis doen. Ibid. III. 175 Þis was a fagynge of þe fendus childur. c1440York Myst. xxx. 513 With-outen fagyng. c1450Mirour Saluacioun 354 Sho broght him inne with faging wordes white. 1483Cath. Angl. 120 A Fagynge, blandicia. Ibid., Fagynge, blandus. 1883Almondbury Gloss., Fageing or Fagey, deceiving, flattering, soft-sawdering.
▪ II. † ˈfage, n. Obs.
[f. prec. vb.]
The action of coaxing or deceiving; a deceit, fiction.
1420J. Page Siege Rouen in Archæol. XXII. 370, I wille haue it withoute fage. c1450Lydg. Hist. Thebes, Hold it for no fage. 1692–1732in Coles. 1721in Bailey. |