单词 | infare |
释义 | infaren. a. The act of going in; entrance. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > [noun] ingangc900 infarea1175 entrya1325 enteringc1330 ingoing1340 incominga1382 coming ina1398 ingressionc1470 introit1481 ingate1496 entrance1528 ingredience1538 ingress1543 impassing1545 enterc1547 entral1642 entrada1648 entrata1656 introgression1656 entrée1692 adit1836 immergence1859 a1175 Cott. Hom. 231 He haueð ȝerimed rihtwisan mannan infer to his rice. b. An entrance, entry, way in. Obsolete. ΚΠ a1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 230/15 Ex aditis, ex ingressibus, of inferum. c1000 Ælfric Genesis iii. 24 Þa gesette God æt þam infære engla hyrdrædene and fyren swurd. c1000 Ælfric Homilies I. 178 He gewite fram urum heortum mid þam innfære gehæft, mid þam þe he inn-afaren wæs and us gehæfte. 2. Scottish, northern dialect, and U.S. A feast or entertainment given on entering a new house; esp. at the reception of a bride in her new home. Also transferred. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > type of social event > [noun] > house-warming infare1487 house-warming1577 warming of the house1650 house-heating1792 welcome home1808 fire kindling1825 house-warmer1901 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) xvi. 340 For he thoucht for till mak Infair [1489 Adv. infar], And till mak gud cher till his men. c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1851) II. 205 Vpone the 25th of October, he brocht over his wyf to his awin hous in Old Abirdene, quhair there wes ane goodlie infair. 1744 J. MacSparran Diary (1899) 18 Dr. Hazard and Betty Gardiner went to..Billy Hazard's weding. They are both gone again..to the Infair. 1794 in Amer. Pioneer 2 223 An Infair was given to-day by Mason, to a fellow named Kuykendall, who had..run off with Mason's daughter..a few weeks ago. 1801 J. Baillie in A. Whitelaw Bk. Scot. Song 73/1 At bridal and infare I've braced me wi pride. 1818 Edinb. Mag. & Literary Misc. Nov. 414 The day after the wedding is the infare..the company is less numerous, and the dinner is commonly the scraps that were left at the wedding-feast. a1847 in H. Howe Hist. Coll. Ohio (1847) 367 The next day after the wedding the party repaired to the house of the groom to enjoy the infair. 1847 W. T. Porter Big Bear of Arkansas 162 (Farmer) I hurried home to put up..some turkies to fatten for the infare. 1872 M. S. De Vere Americanisms 236 The minister is said to settle,..a ceremony which..in many churches is made the occasion of much ceremony, called an installation or infare, because resembling an old-fashioned wedding festival. 1873 J. H. Beadle Undevel. West xxi. 408 Mrs. Thomson's youngest daughter was married yesterday to a white young man..and we arrived in the middle of the ‘infair’. 1887 Harper's Mag. Apr. 730/1 The wedding and the infair were attended..by Wiley. Compounds infare-cake n. a cake of shortbread broken over the bride's head on crossing the threshold of her new home. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > cake > [noun] > a cake > cake for specific occasion > wedding bride cake1533 bridal cake?1613 wedding-cake1648 infare-cake1884 1884 C. Rogers Social Life Scotl. I. iii. 118 The custom of the infar-cake had its origin in the rite of Confarreation whereby the Romans constituted matrimony. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2021). † infarev. Obsolete. intransitive. To go in, to enter. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > go or come in [verb (intransitive)] to go ineOE ingoc900 to come inOE incomec1000 infarec1000 enterc1325 enderc1330 ingressc1330 entera1382 to fall inc1384 usha1400 to get ina1425 to step in1534 to set (or put) (a) footing1567 invade1590 to take in1595 to hop in (also out)1914 c1000 West Saxon Gospels: John (Corpus Cambr.) iii. 5 Ne mæg he in faran on godes rice. c1000 Ælfric Lives Saints (E.E.T.S.) x. 27 Þæt he ælmessan under-fencge æt þam infarendum [v.r. inn farendum]. a1400 Sir Perc. 1538 The portere was redy thare, Lete the knyghtis in fare. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < |
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