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† ˈferren, adv. and a. Obs.
Forms: 1 feorran, feorran(n)e, feorrene, 2–4 ferren(e, (3 feren, verren, 4 ferynne, furrene), 3 feorre(n, 3–5 ferne, 6 farren. Also (after preps. of, on) ferrom(e, ferrum; see a-ferrom.
[OE. feorran, feorrane, feorrene, corresp. to OS. ferrana, ferran, OHG. ferrana, -no, f. OTeut. *ferr- far adv. The adj. appears first in 12th c.; its development from the adv. is paralleled in the mod.G. fern.]
A. adv.
1. From far, from a distance.
Beowulf 839 (Gr.) Feorran and nean. a1000Cædmon's Gen. 1836 (Gr.) Uncer tweᵹa feorren cumenra. c1000Elene 993 (Gr.) Feorran ᵹeferede. a1225Ancr. R. 70 Ȝif eni god mon is feorrene ikumen. a1250Owl & Night. 1320 Hwat canstu..of storre, Bute that thu bi-haitest hi feorre?
2. Afar, far away, at or to a distance.
c888K. ælfred Boeth. xxxix. §5 Ða onᵹon he sprecan swiðe feorran ymbuton. c1000Ags. Gosp. Matt. xxvi. 58 Petrus hym fylide feorrane. c1205Lay. 25733 Þa iseȝen heo nawiht feorren a muchel fur smokien. a1225Juliana 71 Þa..belial þat ha hefde ibeaten feorren to bihinden. c1250Gen. & Ex. 2601 Maria dowter ful feren stod. c1315Shoreham 137 The sonne and monne and many sterren By easte arysethe swythe ferren.
3. Preceded by prep.; of ferren, on ferren (o ferren), from ferren (ferrom): from or at a distance; see a-ferrom.
a1240Sawles Warde in Cott. Hom. 249 A sonde..of feorren icumen. a1300Cursor M. 11744 (Gött.) Þai lokid þaim on ferrom fra. Ibid. 27372 (Cott.) O ferrum for to spi. c1300Havelok 1864 Gleyues schoten him fro ferne. 1352Minot Poems vii. 89 He saw þe toun o-ferrum bren. c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xvi. 72 Þe whilk men may see on ferrum. a1400–50Alexander 5520 In hokis of iren Flesch on ferrom þaim fra. c1470Harding Chron. vi. iii. 5 Shyppes came..Fro ferrome sene.
B. adj. Distant, far, remote.
c1160Hatton Gosp. Luke xix. 12 Sum æthelboren man ferde on ferren [c 1000 Corpus fyrlen] land. c1205Lay. 3331 Ȝef ferrene kinges hiherde þa tidinde. c1250O. Kent Serm. in O.E. Misc. (1871) 27 Þo þrie kinges of heþenesse þet comen fram verrene londes ure louerd to seche. c1305S. Kather. 20 in E.E.P. (1862) 90 So moche folc of furrene lond. c1374Chaucer Boeth. ii. vii. 60 Al þouȝ [þat] renoune y-spradde passynge to ferne poeples goþ by dyuerse tonges. c1386― Prol. 14 Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages..To ferne halwes. c1420Chron. Vilod. 745 Þere come foure clerkes to Wyltone from ferne lond. 1548Gest Pr. Masse 126 In farren contreis. |