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▪ I. farewell, int., n. (a.) and adv.|fɛəˈwɛl|
Forms: 4–6 farwel(l(e, 4–8 farewel, (5 fayrwell, 6 fairewell, fearewele), 5– farewell.
[The phrase fare well (see fare v. 9) treated as one word.]
A. int.
1. An expression of good wishes at the parting of friends, originally addressed to the one setting forth, but in later use a mere formula of civility at parting; Goodbye! Adieu! Now poet. or rhetorical, and chiefly implying regretful feeling.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. xi. 41 ‘Ȝee, farewel phippe!’ quod fauntelte. c1440York Myst. xli. 458 Fayrwell! Godson, thowe grant vs thy blyssng. 1509Hawes Past. Pleas. xvi. vii, Fare well, she sayde, for I must parte you fro. 1601Shakes. All's Well ii. i. 36, I am your accessary, and so farewell. 1697Dryden Virg. Georg. iv. 718 And now farewel. 1821Byron Mar. Fal. iv. i, Farewell! we meet no more in life!—farewell! 1871R. Ellis Catullus xlvi. 9 Farewell company true, my lovely comrades.
2. fig. An expression of regret at leaving anything, or a mere exclamation = Goodbye to, no more of. Also farewell to, and farewell it.
c1385Chaucer L.G.W. Prol. 39 Whan..that the floures ginnen for to springe Farwel my book and my devocioun! c1386― Knt.'s T. 1902 Farewel physike; go bere the man to cherche. c1475Sqr. lowe Degre 941 Farewell golde, pure and fyne; Farewell velvet, and satyne. 1584R. Scot Discov. Witchcr. iii. ii. 33 All the vertue thereof is gone, and farewell it. 1659B. Harris Parival's Iron Age 139 And if she yeilded, farewel Bavaria. 1697Dryden Virg. Past. viii. 82 Farewell ye secret Woods, and shady Groves. 1766Fordyce Serm. Yng. Wom. (1767) I. v. 193 Farewel to real friendship, farewel to convivial delight! 1784Cowper Task i. 247 So farewel envy of the peasants' nest.
†b. Proverb, farewell fieldfare; said to one of whom the speaker wishes to see no more, with allusion to the fieldfare's departure northward at the end of winter. Obs.
c1374Chaucer Troylus iii. 812 The harme is don, and farewel feldyfare. c1400Rom. Rose 5513.
c. In the name of a plant (see quot.).
1878–86Britten & Holland Plant-n., Farewell Summer, Saponaria officinalis L... From its flowering in the months of August and September.
B. n.
1. a. The int. used subst. as a name for itself, and hence for any equivalent, as in to say farewell to. With this has now coalesced the originally distinct use in to bid farewell, where farewell represents historically the inf., not as elsewhere the imp., of the vbl. phrase. b. An utterance of the word ‘farewell’; any expression or act equivalent to this; a parting salutation, formal leave-taking, adieu.
1393Gower Conf. II. 268 But farewell she was ago Unto Pallas. 1526Tindale Acts xviii. 21 Bad them feare well. 1570North Doni's Mor. Philos. (1888) IV. 229 For a farewell..he will yerke out behinde and put him in daunger of his life. 1587Janes in Hakluyt's Voy. III. 113 But we, little regarding their curtesie, gaue them the gentle farewell, and so departed. 1633Ford Broken H. iv. iv, She..begg'd some gentle voice to tune farewel To life and griefs. 1684Bunyan Pilgr. ii. 12 So their Visitor bid them farewel. 1710Addison Whig Exam. No. 1 ⁋14, I take my farewel of this subject. 1758S. Hayward Serm. xvi. 490 He was going to bid all things here an everlasting farewel. 1770Goldsm. Des. Vill. 367 Fondly look'd their last, And took a long farewell. 1838Lytton Alice 53 She had wept her last farewell on her mother's bosom. 1850Tennyson In Mem. cxxiii, I cannot think the thing farewell. 1880Ouida Moths I. 116, ‘I came to bid you farewell’, he said softly. 1884Illust. Lond. News 1 Nov. 410/2 The ‘farewells’..of actors and singers are not always to be depended on.
†2. A payment on quitting a tenancy. Obs.
1523Fitzherb. Surv. 25 b, The tenant..shall make a fyne with the lorde for his dep[ar]tyng..and it is called a farefee or a farewell.
†3. transf. An after-taste, twang. Obs.
1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 183 The Jacke..leaves a clammy farewell in the mouth, but addes a double benefit to the stomacke. 1648Sanderson Serm. II. 245 Temporal advantages of wealth [etc.]..have a very ill farewel with them at the last. 1759Boyer Fr. & Eng. Dict. s.v., This wine has a sad farewell with it.
4. attrib. passing into an adj.: Pertaining to a farewell, accompanying or signifying a farewell. (In this use the stress is variable: most commonly ˈfarewell.)
a1711Ken Hymns Evang. Poet Wks. 1721 I. 182 He num'rous Farewell-Blessings on them pour'd. 1712Addison Spect. No. 445 ⁋2 Writers, who have taken their Leave of the Publick in farewel Papers. 1713Tickell Prospect of Peace 41 The hardy Vet'ran..Leans on his Spear to take his farewell View. 1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1789), Coup de partance, a farewell gun. 1822–56De Quincey Confess. (1862) 108 A few final or farewell farewells. 1856Kane Arct. Expl. I. x. 115, I accompanied them with my dogs as a farewell escort for some miles. 1932E. Hemingway Death in Afternoon xix. 249 He is..giving a final series of farewell performances. 1938M. Allingham Fashion in Shrouds viii. 120, I wanted to make sure that he was coming down on Saturday to Ramillies' farewell party. 1959N. Mailer Advts. for Myself (1961) 267 To announce a farewell appearance then be on the scene again the following week is to ooze all the ebbing charm..of the desperate old actor. 1971R. Busby Deadlock xv. 224 You could say it was his farewell performance.
b. applied to the point where one ‘bids farewell to’ or parts from a person or thing.
1669Sturmy Mariner's Mag. A ij, The Lizard being the farewel Cape to most Ships that sail out of the British Seas. 1865Page Handbk. Geol. Terms (ed. 2), Farewell Rock. The familiar term in the South Welsh coal-field for the Millstone Grit, because on striking it the miner bids fare⁓well to all workable seams of coal.
†C. adv. (cf. adieu adv. 1) to go farewell: to go away, be dismissed. Obs.
c1391Chaucer Astrol. ii. §23 Let A & F [two stars] go farwel til agayns the dawenyng a gret while.
▪ II. farewell, v.|fɛəˈwɛl|
Also 7 farwell.
[f. prec.]
a. trans. To take leave of, bid or say good-bye to; spec. Austral. and N.Z.: to honour a departing or retiring person or persons at a ceremonial occasion.
b. intr. To say good-bye.
1580Sidney Arcadia (1622) 93 She brake from their armes..And fare-welling the flocke, did homeward wend. 1606tr. Rollock's Lect. on 1 & 2 Thess. i. xxvi. 325 After tryell if thou findst it [his doctrine] sound..keep it; if not, faire⁓well it. a1657R. Loveday Lett. (1663) 28 It put some doubts to flight that you had farwell'd Barningham. a1693Urquhart Rabelais iii. xliii. 356 Pantagruel..farewell'd..the President. 1885R. F. Burton 1001 Nights I. 122 She farewelled me with her dying eyes. 1902J. H. M. Abbott Tommy Cornstalk 235 The North Terrace and the railway station had farewelled us with more delightful fervour than even if we had been an Australian Eleven driving round in drags. 1930Tribune (Melbourne) 15 May 2/3 A popular priest. Fr. Hyland farewelled. 1931Auckland Star 22 Mar., Opportunity was taken to farewell the Rev. E. Drake and Mrs. Drake. |