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† ˈfar-fet, a. Obs.
[f. far adv. + fet, pa. pple. of fet v. Obs.]
1. = far-fetched 1.
1579Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 93 Farre fet and deere bought is good for Ladyes. 1581Sidney Astr. & Stella (1622) 536 Those far-fet helpes. 1613Beaum. & Fl. Honest Man's Fort. iii. iii, Your far-fet viands please not My appetite. 1671Milton P.R. ii. 401 Others..Whose pains have earn'd the far-fet spoil.
2. = far-fetched 2.
1533More Answ. Poysoned Bk. Wks. 1123/2 In..hys farre fet reason, neyther is hys maior true, nor hys argument toucheth not the matter. 1580Sidney Arcadia iii. (1590) 360 Therewith he told her a farre-fet tale. a1680Butler Rem. (1759) II. 116 For Metaphors, he uses to chuse the..most far fet that he can light upon.
3. as n. (See quot.) rare—1.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. xvii. (Arb.) 193 The figure Metalepsis, which I call the farfet, as when we had rather fetch a word a great way off then to vse one nerer hand to expresse the matter aswel and plainer. |