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单词 infare
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infaren.

/ˈɪnfɛː/
Forms: Old English infær, innfær, Old English–Middle English infer, Middle English infar, Middle English, 1600s (Scottish), 1800s infair, 1600s– infare, (1800s infar).
Etymology: Old English innfær , < inn, in adv. + fær going, journey, expedition, fare n.1 < faran to go.
1. (Old English and early Middle English)
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.

Etymology: Old English inn- , infaran , < inn, in adv. + faran to go: compare Old Frisian in-fara , Dutch invaren , German einfahren (with separable prefix: see in- prefix1). Originally two words, and so usually written.
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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