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▪ I. † far-fetch, n. Obs.
[Back-formation from far-fetched.]
1. A deeply-laid or cunning stratagem.
a1562G. Cavendish Life Wolsey (1827) 129 Ye may see..how she can compass a matter to work displeasure by a far fetch. 1566Gascoigne & Kinwelmarsh Jocasta ii. i, This minde of mine Doth fleete full farre from that farfetch of his. 1678Butler Hud. iii. ii. 1584 Jesuits have deeper Reaches In all their Politick Far-fetches.
2. Fondness for far-fetched ideas.
1813W. Taylor Eng. Synonyms (1856) 64 Wieland had too fine a smell; his reader must be practised, to be aware of his far-fetch.
3. attrib. or adj. = far-fetched.
1603Sir C. Heydon Jud. Astrol. xviii. 365 Had he neuer printed it, this farre-fetch deriuation had neuer beene dearely bought.
▪ II. † far-fetch, v. Obs. rare.
[f. as prec.]
trans. To derive in a far-fetched manner.
1639Fuller Holy War iv. ii. (1647) 168 It seemeth a forced and overstrained deduction, to farrefetch the name of Tartars from an Hebrew word. 1870Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. i. (1873) 193 There is such a difference between far-reaching and far-fetching. 1929D. H. Lawrence Pornogr. & So On (1936) 16 Poetry more and more tends to far-fetch its word-meanings. |