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▪ I. † fode, n. Obs. rare—1.
? One who beguiles with fair words (see the verb).
a1529Skelton Manerly Margery 10 Strawe, Jamys foder, ye play the fode, I am no hakney for your rode.
▪ II. † fode, v. Obs.
Forms: α. 6 foad, foude, foode, 7 foord, 4–6 fode. β. 6 foder, fowder, foadre.
[Of obscure etymology.
Commonly regarded as a fig. use of food v. The occasional use of to feed forth instead of to fode forth (see feed v. 2 b) seems to show that the word was sometimes so interpreted in 15–16th c.; but the spelling foade, and the late survival of fode, prove that the vowel sound was not that which represented OE. ó, but that which represented OE. á or OE. o in open syllables. No certain connexions are known; Grimm gives several examples of an early mod.Ger. fot n., app. meaning ‘guile, deceit.’]
1. trans. To beguile with show of kindness or fair words; to entertain with delusive expectations; to encourage or confirm in a foolish purpose or opinion, soothe in fancied security; to give countenance to (a delusion).
αc1350Will. Palerne 1646 Foule þow me fodest wiþ þi faire wordes. Ibid. 57 Þe cherl..foded it [þe barn] wiþ floures & wiþ faire by-hest. 1526Skelton Magnyf. 1719, I am not wont to fode Them that dare put theyr truste in me. 1565J. Calfhill Answ. Treat. Crosse (1846) 3 Least..you your selues be fooded in your folly. 1565Golding Ovid's Met. vii. (1587) 99 b, The morning foading this my feare, to further my deuice, my shape..had altered with a trice. 1571― Calvin on Ps. xxxii. 1 The frowarde reckelessenesse of the flesh fodeth many.
β1545State Papers Hen. VIII, X. 297 Thempereur myndeth..to fowder His Highnes with woordes of pleasure, until he may [etc.]. 1571Mirr. Mag., Rivers xxxii, And as they foadred [1563 foaded] these and diuers other With like deceit they vsed the King my brother.
2. to fode forth, (occas. forward, off, on, out):
a. To lead on (a person, etc.) by raising delusive expectations; to ‘fob off’ with excuses or evasive devices for gaining time.
α1479Sir J. Paston in Paston Lett. No. 840 III. 255, I hopyd to have borowyd some off Tounesend and he hath ffoodyd me fforthe evyrsynys. 1525Ld. Berners Froiss. II. cxxviii [cxxiv]. 365 The duke alwayes foded hym forthe and made semblant that he had great affection to treate for this mariage. 1556J. Heywood Spider & F. i. 30 A booke I tooke in hand Some thinge to reade, to fode foorth fantasie. 1573Baret Alv. F 827 He was fooded foorth in vaine with long talke. 1591Harington Orl. Fur. ix. lix, In this meane time with words he foded out The worthy Earle. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks 114 Feeding him vp with faire words, and foording him on from time to time with delaies. 1616Hieron Wks. II. 42 Hee feeds and foades vs off with vaine words.
β1545State Pap. Hen. VIII, X. 297 If he shall still foder Us furth with fayre wordes.
b. To waste (time), delay or postpone (a matter) by evasive excuses. Also absol.
1525Ld. Berners Froiss. II. xlii. 129 Syr Othes..foded forth the tyme as he that wyst not what to do. 1529More Comf. agst. Trib. ii. Wks. 1163/2 The Wolfe would not come to confession tyl..Palme sondaye:..and then foded yet forth farther, on tyl good Fryday. 1544State Pap. Hen. VIII, IX. 653 They seke..to fode the matier forwarde, until [etc.]. 1577tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 237 Whatsoeuer is..foaded off till a longer time then it ought to be.
▪ III. fode, -er, -yr
obs. ff. food, fodder, fother. |