† enfarcev.
Obsolete.
1. To stuff:
a. (a sucking pig, etc.) with forcemeat.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > stuffing > stuff [verb (intransitive)]
farcea1400
enfarcea1475
a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 36 Put alle in body of þo pygge, Rost hit on broche of irne bygge Enfarsed.
b. (the belly, oneself) with food.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > excessive consumption of food or drink > eat or drink to excess [verb (transitive)] > feed (oneself) to excess
over-quatc1275
glutc1315
fill1340
stuffa1400
aglutc1400
agroten1440
grotenc1440
ingrotenc1440
sorporrc1440
replenisha1450
pegc1450
quatc1450
overgorgea1475
gorge1486
burst1530
cloy1530
saturate1538
enfarce1543
mast?1550
engluta1568
gull1582
ingurgitate1583
stall1583
forage1593
paunch1597
upbray1598
upbraid1599
surfeitc1600
surcharge1603
gormandize1604
overfeed1609
farcinate1634
repletiate1638
stodge1854
1543 T. Becon New Yeares Gyfte sig. C.vii How doth the glottone..enfarse it [sc. his belly] wythe all kynde of deynties?
1574 T. Newton tr. G. Gratarolo Direct. Health Magistrates & Studentes 12 If the partie..have not longe afore enfarced himselfe with plentie of meate.
2. transferred and figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > take up (space or a place) [verb (transitive)] > fill > stuff or cram
cramc1000
pitchc1300
thrustc1380
purra1398
stopc1400
farcec1405
stuffc1440
line?1521
enfarce1531
threstc1540
pack1567
prag1567
prop1568
referse1580
thwack1582
ram1590
pang1637
farcinate1638
stivea1639
thrack1655
to craw outa1658
trig1660
steeve1669
stow1710
jam1719
squab1819
farcy1830
cram-jam1880
jam-pack1936
1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. iii. sig. Bviiv Redynge this warke, infarced througly with suche histories and sentences.
1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour ii. vi. sig. Pv A man..by furie chaunged in to an horrible figure, his face infarced with rancour.
1539 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) iii. i. f. 54v The bodye is infarced, eyther with coler, yelow or blacke, or with fleume, or with watry humours.
1542 T. Becon Potacion for Lent sig. Bv Soules, replenisshed and enfarsed with celestiall meate.
1543 R. Grafton Contin. in Chron. J. Hardyng f. lxxxix Letters enfarced and replenished with al humanitee.
3. To stuff (something) into. Also figurative (contemptuously) to interpolate.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > insert or put in [verb (transitive)] > forcibly > cram or stuff in
crama1400
wedge1513
enfarce1564
pester1570
farce1579
stuff1579
ram1582
impact1601
thrum1603
to cramp in1605
crowd1609
impack1611
screw1635
infarciate1657
stodge1674
choke1747
bodkin1793
jam1793
bodkinize1833
pump1899
shoehorn1927
1564 Briefe Exam. *iiij b Ye woulde not be so busie to infarce in your bookes the reproche of these men.
1566 T. Drant tr. Horace Medicinable Morall sig. aiiiiv Thauthors must be full Of fostred arte, infarst in ballasde breste.
1578 J. Banister Hist. Man i. f. 12v This neither iawe..hath on eche side propper cauities with marey infarced.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxxv. xiv. 555 The earth thus infarced [between planks] continueth a world of yeeres.
1623 W. Lisle in tr. Ælfric Saxon Treat. Old & New Test. Pref. 5 The Latin Copy~clarke..hath enfarced these words, Quamvis ipse, etc.
1624 Bp. F. White Replie to Iesuit Fishers Answere Pref. 8 He..infarceth here a rapsodie.
Derivatives
enˈfarcing n.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > textual criticism > version of text > [noun] > reading > interpolated word or passage > action of interpolating
interpolation1612
enfarcing1623
embolism1772
1623 W. Lisle in tr. Ælfric Saxon Treat. Old & New Test. Pref. By the infarcing afterward of these Epistles..into their bookes of Canons.
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