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▪ I. wayfare, n. arch.|ˈweɪfɛə(r)|
[f. way n.1 + fare n., after wayfaring a.]
1. Wayfaring, travelling. Also fig.
a1400Morte Arth. 1797 He..Wroghte wayes fulle wyde, and wounded knyghttez; Wyrkez his in wayfare fulle werkand sydez, And hewes of þe hardieste halsez in sondyre. 1601Holland Pliny xi. xxx. I. 328 Their [sc. ants'] waifare is so ordinarie and continuall, that wee may see the very hard flint and pebble stones worne with their passage too and fro. 1614Sylvester Little Bartas 714 The heavy load Of Cares and Crosses (in a thousand things) Which this our wretched, sad, short, Way-fare brings. 1850S. Dobell Crazed 24, I..entered on my wayfare when I saw Gold on the ground and glory in the trees. 1886Burton Arab. Nts. (abr. ed.) I. 4 On the fourth day he made ready for wayfare. 1887Morris Odyss. x. 501 O Circe, and what helmsman for my wayfare shall I get?
b. Guidance in travel. rare—1.
1875Morris æneids viii. 336 Me..my mother's word well worshipped hither drave, The nymph Carmentis; and a god, Apollo, wayfare gave.
†2. Provision for a journey, travelling expenses. [tr. L. viaticum]. Obs.
1600Holland Livy xxii. lii. 464 A noble Lady..named Busa, relieved them with some victuall, apparrell, yea and mony also in their purses for their wayfare. 1609Bible (Douay) Deut. xv. 14 Thou shalt in no case suffer him to depart emptie: but geve him his wayfare of thy flockes, and of thy barne floore, and thy presse.
▪ II. wayfare, v. Now rare and arch.|ˈweɪfɛə(r)|
[Back-formation from wayfaring n.]
intr. To journey or travel, esp. on foot. Also to wayfare it.
1547Act 1 Edw. VI, c. 3 §3 Divers wemen and men goeth on begging wayefaring. 1587Golding De Mornay xxiv. (1617) 411 Abraham, Isaac and Iacob wayfared from place to place vpon the earth. 1596Spenser F.Q. v. xi. 37 There as he traueld by the way, he met An aged wight, wayfaring all alone. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 474 A certaine Laconian as he way-fared, came unto a place where there dwelt an olde friend and host of his. 1818Keats Lett. Wks. 1889 III. 142, I hope soon to be writing you about the things of the north, purposing to wayfare all over those parts. 1850Fraser's Mag. XLII. 446 Shoals of people..wayfared it up the Rhine. 1898Hardy Wessex Poems 135 Along through the Stour-bordered Forum, Where Legions had wayfared.
b. fig. and in fig. context.
1535Goodly Primer, Commendations Ps. cxix. Zaïn, Whilst I here wayfared a stranger. 1578Bk. Chr. Prayers 12 Most louing Father,..harken to the prayers of thy seruants, yet wayfaring here on earth. 1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 141 Not jading it in the great road of bare motion, which other stirr'd bodies are wayfaring in. 1875Manning Mission Holy Ghost i. 23 That he is but a stranger wayfaring upon earth. |