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ˈill-ˈfaring, a. [f. ill adv. + faring ppl. a.] Faring badly, in bad condition; ill-conditioned. Hence † ˌill-ˈfaringly adv., in an ill-conditioned manner.
a1400Sir Perc. 848 Siche ille farande fare. 1580Sidney Arcadia iii. Wks. 1725 II. 627 The ill-faring word of farewel. 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. ix. (Arb.) 169 When I consider..how ill faring the Greeke terme would sound in the English eare. Ibid. iii. xxiii. 281 Another..spake as ill-faringly in this verse. |