farcen.¹

Brit.

/fɑːs/, U.S.

/fɑrs/

Forms: Middle English fars, 1600s–1700s farce.

Etymology: < Old French farce, < farcir, farsir < Latin farcīre to stuff.

Forcemeat, stuffing.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > additive > stuffing > [noun] > force-meat stuffing

farsure1381

farce?c1390

stuffurec1440

farcing1532

farcement1628

godiveau1653

farciment1657

farture1657

forcemeat1688

?c1390 Form of Cury (1780) 75 Make a Coffyn an ynche depe & do þe fars þerin.

c1430 Two Cookery-bks. 45 Take of the fars, and lay on þe cake.

1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Calves Ears They must be..unsew'd when ready, but so as the Farce may not fall out.

1796 Glasse's Art of Cookery (new ed.) vi. 116 Make a farce with the livers minced small.

1823 G. Crabb Universal Technol. Dict. Farces, meat chopped small, and well spiced.

1904 Daily Chron. 4 May 10/5 The hollow should be filled with a rich veal farce.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

farcen.²

Brit.

/fɑːs/, U.S.

/fɑrs/

Forms: Also 1500s–1600s farse, 1500s farsche (Scottish), 1500s frais (Scottish), 1500s pheirs (Scottish), 1500s phraisis (plural Scottish), 1500s phrassis (plural Scottish).

Etymology: < (in 16th cent.) French farce, apparently a metaphorical use of farce stuffing: see farce n.¹The history of the sense appears to be as follows: In the 13th cent. the word (in latinized form farsa , farsia ) was applied in France and England to the various phrases interpolated in litanies between the words kyrie and eleison (e.g. ‘Kyrie, genitor ingenite , vera essentia , eleison’); to similar expansions of other liturgical formulæ; and to expository or hortatory passages in French (sometimes in rhyme) which were inserted between the Latin sentences in chanting the epistle. (The related verb Latin farcire , Old French farcir to stuff, hence to ‘pad out’, interlard, was used in the same connection in the expressions epistola farcita , un benedicamus farci . See Du Cange s.vv. Farsa, Farsia, and Burney Hist. Music II. 256.) Subsequently the Old French farce , with similar notion, occurs as the name for the extemporaneous amplification or ‘gag’, or the interludes of impromptu buffoonery, which the actors in the religious dramas were accustomed to interpolate into their text. Hence the transition to the modern sense is easy. (The ecclesiastical Latin farsa , farcire , referred to above, have been anglicized by modern writers on liturgical antiquities as farse n., farse v.)

a. A dramatic work (usually short) which has for its sole object to excite laughter; an interlude (cf. interlude n. 1).

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > a comedy

comedy1523

farce1530

interlude?1553

merriment1576

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > a comedy > a farce

farce1530

Atellan1628

burletta1748

sotie1807

farcetta1835

boulevard farce1838

Whitehall farce1956

14.. La Vie de St. Fiacre in Mysterès inédits 15 ^me Siécle (1837) I. 332 Cy est interposé une farsse.]

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 17 Suche as writte farcis and contrefait the vulgare speche.

1559 D. Lindsay Test. Papyngo l. 41 in Wks. (1931) I In ballatts, farses, and in plesand playis.

a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 379 Great treumph and blythnes of phrassis and playis maid to hir at hir hame comming... Wpoun the eist syde thair was maid to her ane trieumphant frais [MSS. pheirs] to Schir Dawid Lyndsay of the Mont.

a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 381 Greit triumph, phraissis maid and playis wnto the queins grace.

a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) II. 125 Singing playing dansing and pheirsis.

1668 S. Pepys Diary 31 July (1976) IX. 270 To the King's House to see the first day of Lacy's ‘Monsieur Ragou’..a Farce.

1726 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius (ed. 2) xliv. 235 Excellent farces so frequently..perform'd in her [Oxford's] convocation-house.

1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 274 A tragedy, pantomime, and farce, were all acted in the course of half an hour.

b. That species of the drama which is constituted by such works.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > [noun] > comedy > specific

low comedy1608

farce1676

light comedy1698

high comedy1707

comedy of manners1822

comedietta1823

Adelphi screamer1830

commedia dell'arte1877

musical comedy1903

comédie noire1958

alternative comedy1980

1676 J. Dryden in G. Etherege Man of Mode Epil. 96 Those Nauseous Harlequins in Farce may pass.

1717 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 1 Jan. (1965) I. 292 The Scenes were pritty, but the comedy it selfe such intolerable low farce.

1756 R. Hurd Provinces of Drama Introd., in Wks. (1811) II. 30 By Farce I understand, that species of the drama ‘whose sole aim and tendency is to excite Laughter’.

1877 A. W. Ward in Encycl. Brit. VII. 438/1 English comedy seemed inclined to leave to farce the domain of healthy ridicule.

2. Something as ridiculous as a theatrical farce; a proceeding that is ludicrously futile or insincere; a hollow pretence, a mockery.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > [noun] > one who or that which dissembles

feigner1382

pseudo1402

simular1526

simuler1534

colourer1554

counterfeiter1561

truphane1568

counterfeit1574

put-forth1581

pretender1583

impostor1586

idol1590

would-be1607

phantasm1622

farce1696

imposture1699

Barmecide1713

simulator1835

fraud1850

sham1850

fake1855

swindle1858

shammer1861

make-believe1863

hoax1869

economizer1874

make-believer1884

ringer1896

phoney1902

faker1910

shill1976

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > fact or condition of being mocked or ridiculed > [noun] > state or quality of being ridiculous > ridiculous proceeding

farce1696

1696 tr. J. Dumont New Voy. Levant 296 The Farce is too gross and visible.

1704 M. Prior Ladle 139 A Ladle..is what I want..you have pray'd ill; what should be Great you turn to Farce.

1705 W. Wotton Defense 57 'Tis all with him a Farce and all a Ladle, as a very facetious Poet says.

1762 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy V. xv. 67 Unless every one's life and opinions are to be looked upon as a farce.

1791 E. Burke Corr. (1844) III. 255 It is quite a farce to talk of his liberty.

1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 246 The buzz of notoriety and the farce of fashion.

1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. III. lxxxix. 204 These delegates..duly went through the farce of selecting and voting for persons already determined on by the Ring.

Compounds

attributive and in other combinations, as farce-scribbler, farce-tragedy, farce-writer; farce-like adj.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [adjective] > comical

merryc1390

pleasant1553

comical1575

mowsome1596

zany1616

burlesque1656

humoursome1656

farce-like1681

foolish1691

farcical1715

amusive1727

farciful1731

funny1739

farcic1763

quizzical1785

quizzy1785

quizzish1792

rib-tickling1809

smileable1830

cocasse1868

priceless1907

skit1914

funny-ha-ha1916

gas1955

society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun] > humorous writer

comic1549

comedian1580

sarcast1654

scribble-wit1672

farce-writer1681

humorist1871

gag-writer1959

1681 J. Oldham tr. Horace Art of Poetry in Some New Pieces never Publisht 19 Satyrs..Whose Farce-like Gesture, Motion, Speech, and Meen Resembled those of modern Harlequin.

1695 J. Dryden in tr. C. A. Du Fresnoy De Arte Graphica Pref. p. xxvi Farce-Scribblers make use of the same noble invention [laughter] to entertain Citizens.

1710 C. Gildon Life T. Betterton 174 Nay, after these our very Farce Writers deserve more Esteem.

1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke II. xvi. 259 Those miserable, awful, farce-tragedies of April and June.

1859 H. Morley Jrnl. 5 Nov. (1866) 240 Reasons which a farce-writer is entitled to regard as sufficient.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

farcev.¹

Brit.

/fɑːs/, U.S.

/fɑrs/

Forms: Also Middle English–1800s farse, (Middle English faarce, Middle English–1500s fars).

Etymology: < Old French farsir (French farcir) = Provençal farsir < Latin farcīre to stuff.

Obsolete or archaic.

To stuff, to fill full of something. Const. with.

†1.

a. transitive. In cookery: To stuff (an animal, a piece of meat) with forcemeat, herbs, etc. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > stuffing > stuff [verb (intransitive)]

farcea1400

enfarcea1475

the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > stuffing > stuff [verb (transitive)]

to stop full1342

farcea1400

force?a1400

stuffc1430

marinate1722

bombard1747

truffle1868

a1400 Medical Receipts in Rel. Ant. 1 51 Farse the catte within als thu farses a gos.

c1430 Two Cookery-bks. 41 Broche þin Pygge; þen farce hym.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 545/2 This conye is well farced.

1586 T. Bright Treat. Melancholie xxxix. 259 Pigge..farced with sage.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage ii. xviii. 173 If any farse a henne, the needle must be threeded the day before.

1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Breast of Veal Farce it between the Skin and small Ribs.

1736 N. Bailey Dict. Domesticum 235 To farce Cucumbers.

absolute.?1553 (c1501) G. Douglas Palice of Honour (London) ii. l. 1231 in Shorter Poems (1967) 78 Marcyall was cuyk, till rost, seith, fars [1579 Edinb. farce] or fry.

†b. to farce together: to make into forcemeat. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of meat > dress animals for food [verb (transitive)] > dress in specific way

hash1615

to farce together1650

fricassee1657

collarc1670

britten1688

roll1702

ragout1710

French1747

turtlea1756

fricandeau1769

haricot1769

surprise1769

1650 N. Ward Discolliminium 46 Polcatts Lites, and Hedgehoggs Livers..farced together with the galls of Wizards.

†2. In embalming (see quots.). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > preparation or treatment of corpse > prepare corpse [verb (transitive)] > embalm

balmc1300

embalmc1385

gum1419

anointa1425

seasonc1440

spice?a1475

farce1563

condite1649

balsam1855

1563 2nd Tome Homelyes Idolatry iii, in J. Griffiths Two Bks. Homilies (1859) ii. 264 They bury dead bodies farced with spices.

1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 325 Some used to embalm..the belly..farced with cassia.

†3. To cram (the stomach, etc., oneself) with food. Also, To fill out (what is lean or shrunken).

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > broad shape or physique > [verb (transitive)] > fat or plump

farce14..

alarda1425

plum1561

enseam1562

lard1579

engross1587

impinguate1620

to put on1626

rotund1650

pinguedinize1656

bloat1677

to take ona1750

round1830

pinguefy1893

14.. Prose Legends in Anglia VIII. 154 She was..farsed wiþ goostly fodes.

1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) ix. 398 With gud morsellis farsis [1489 Adv. fayrcis] thair panch.

a1522 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) viii. Prol. 52 A guse..To fars his wame full.

1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor v. iii. sig. Piv If thou would'st farce thy leane Ribs with it too, they would not..rub out so many Dublets.

a1632 T. Taylor God's Judgem. (1642) i. i. ix. 20 Never ceasing to farse his greedy throat with continuall sustenance.

1669 Addr. Hopeful Young Gentry 39 They farse themselves with the most exquisite delicacies.

†4. gen. To cram full of; to pack; also, to overlay thickly. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > take up (space or a place) [verb (transitive)] > fill > stuff or cram

cramc1000

pitchc1300

thrustc1380

purra1398

stopc1400

farcec1405

stuffc1440

line?1521

enfarce1531

threstc1540

pack1567

prag1567

prop1568

referse1580

thwack1582

ram1590

pang1637

farcinate1638

stivea1639

thrack1655

to craw outa1658

trig1660

steeve1669

stow1710

jam1719

squab1819

farcy1830

cram-jam1880

jam-pack1936

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > cover [verb (transitive)] > thickly or overwhelmingly

mat1577

farce1582

smothera1592

smother1598

overlay1993

c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 233 His typet was ay farsed ful of knyues.

1569 T. Stocker tr. Diodorus Siculus Hist. Successors Alexander iii. xiii. 124 b A couer..made of cowe hides farsed with wolle.

1577 E. Hellowes tr. A. de Guevara Chron. 60 The ayre seemed to be farsed or compound with dust.

1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 13 When they [sc. bees]..cels ar farcing with dulce and delicat hoonnye.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 174 His capcase farsed with things of great value.

1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. viii. 492/2 A Helmet of excellent proofe full farced with Mayle.

1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. xi. iii. 419 The wound must..be enlarged..that so there may be free passage..for such things as are farced..therein.

5. figurative; esp. To season, ‘spice’ (a composition, speech). Also with up. (Cf. farse v.)

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > excitement > pleasurable excitement > affect with pleasurable excitement [verb (transitive)] > make piquantly exciting

farcea1340

seasonc1520

spice1529

sauce?1534

salt1576

savour1578

cantharidize1812

whoosh1909

zap1979

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > vigour or force > imbue with vigour or force [verb (transitive)] > make more piquant or poignant

farcea1340

sprinkle1605

cantharidize1812

pepper1835

acuminate1879

a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xvi. 11 Þai held þaire pride farsid in felonyse.

c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Hipsiph. & Medea. 1369 Wordes farsed with plesaunce.

1406 T. Hoccleve La Male Regle 13 Farsid was I with hertes gladnesse.

c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 49 Stoffid and farsid wiþ gold.

a1575 N. Harpsfield Treat. Divorce Henry VIII (1878) (modernized text) 116 The book..is farced with many untruths.

1577 R. Holinshed Hist. Eng. 122/2 in Chron. I With what stuffe our olde historiographers haue farced vp their huge volumes.

1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love Praeludium sig. A4^v Stale Apophthegmes..to farce their Scenes withall.

a1640 P. Massinger Beleeue as you List (1976) iii. ii. 83 Farce thy leane ribbes with hope.

1678 J. Owen Ζυνεσις Πνευματικη viii. 233 Such notable sayings are many of our late Criticks farced withal.

1830 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I III. xi. 243 Their invectives were well farced for the gross taste of the multitude.

1834 R. Southey Let. in H. Taylor Autobiog. (1885) I. xvi. 280 Farcing it [a book]..with quotations.

†6. To stuff or force (something) into something else; also to farce in; in quots. figurative. Also to force (something) through (a strainer). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > straining > strain [verb (transitive)]

syec725

strainc1386

sile14..

sythe1440

farcea1475

colate1631

elutriate1731

colander1887

tammy1903

the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > insert or put in [verb (transitive)] > forcibly > cram or stuff in

crama1400

wedge1513

enfarce1564

pester1570

farce1579

stuff1579

ram1582

impact1601

thrum1603

to cramp in1605

crowd1609

impack1611

screw1635

infarciate1657

stodge1674

choke1747

bodkin1793

jam1793

bodkinize1833

pump1899

shoehorn1927

a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 30 Take mustarde..Stomper hit in a morter fyne, And fars hit þurghe a clothe of lyne.

1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 257 He farceth in another slaunder of vs.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage iv. iv. 361 Other prodigious miracles he farseth into his storie.

7. = farse v.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > worship > parts of service > [verb (transitive)] > use amplificatory phrase

farce1857

farse1875

1857 Ecclesiologist 18 204 A very curious farced Epistle.

1894 Athenæum 28 July 128/2 A peculiar feature in the recitation is the ‘farcings’ of each psalm, i.e., the introduction of sentences, generally giving some application of the psalm to Christ.

1895 Liturgy of Holy Apostles Adai & Mari 1 There is no farcing at feasts, but a Hallelujah is said.

1907 Mod. Philol. IV. 585 None of these gradual variations caused legend or farced epistle to become anything other than legend and farced epistle.

Derivatives

ˈfarced adj. in senses of the verb.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > stuffing > [adjective]

farcedc1430

forced1538

bacon-farceda1657

marinated1659

stuffed1729

filled1843

the mind > emotion > pride > pomposity > [adjective]

pompousc1375

buggish1536

biga1568

bug1567

braving1600

large1608

farceda1616

budge1637

bulky1672

fastuose1674

portentous1805

highfalutin1839

heavy1849

portentious1859

ventose1867

falutin1921

pound-noteish1936

pomposo1960

stuffed-shirted1977

c1430 Two Cookery-bks. 41 Capoun or gos farced.

a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 36 Pygges farsyd.

1549 T. Chaloner tr. Erasmus Praise of Folie sig. Iij Well farsed tables.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iv. i. 260 The farsed Title running 'fore the King.

1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Carp Farced Carps.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

† farcev.²

Etymology: Compare farce v.¹ 4 and fard v.

Obsolete.

transitive. To paint (the face).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the skin or complexion > beautify (the skin or complexion) [verb (transitive)] > paint or colour

painta1382

farcec1400

farda1450

parget1581

complexion1612

surfle1633

cerusea1640

petre1656

lacquer1688

whitewasha1704

enamel1804

peachify1853

to mug up1859

highlight1935

c1400 Rom. Rose 2285 Farce not thi visage.

c1430 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes i. xiv To shere my berde, and farce my vysage With oyntments..To make it souple.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

n.¹?c1390

n.²1530

v.¹a1340

v.²c1400

单词	farce
释义	farcen.¹ Brit. /fɑːs/, U.S. /fɑrs/ Forms: Middle English fars, 1600s–1700s farce. Etymology: < Old French farce, < farcir, farsir < Latin farcīre to stuff. Forcemeat, stuffing. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > additive > stuffing > [noun] > force-meat stuffing farsure1381 farce?c1390 stuffurec1440 farcing1532 farcement1628 godiveau1653 farciment1657 farture1657 forcemeat1688 ?c1390 Form of Cury (1780) 75 Make a Coffyn an ynche depe & do þe fars þerin. c1430 Two Cookery-bks. 45 Take of the fars, and lay on þe cake. 1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Calves Ears They must be..unsew'd when ready, but so as the Farce may not fall out. 1796 Glasse's Art of Cookery (new ed.) vi. 116 Make a farce with the livers minced small. 1823 G. Crabb Universal Technol. Dict. Farces, meat chopped small, and well spiced. 1904 Daily Chron. 4 May 10/5 The hollow should be filled with a rich veal farce. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022). farcen.² Brit. /fɑːs/, U.S. /fɑrs/ Forms: Also 1500s–1600s farse, 1500s farsche (Scottish), 1500s frais (Scottish), 1500s pheirs (Scottish), 1500s phraisis (plural Scottish), 1500s phrassis (plural Scottish). Etymology: < (in 16th cent.) French farce, apparently a metaphorical use of farce stuffing: see farce n.¹The history of the sense appears to be as follows: In the 13th cent. the word (in latinized form farsa , farsia ) was applied in France and England to the various phrases interpolated in litanies between the words kyrie and eleison (e.g. ‘Kyrie, genitor ingenite , vera essentia , eleison’); to similar expansions of other liturgical formulæ; and to expository or hortatory passages in French (sometimes in rhyme) which were inserted between the Latin sentences in chanting the epistle. (The related verb Latin farcire , Old French farcir to stuff, hence to ‘pad out’, interlard, was used in the same connection in the expressions epistola farcita , un benedicamus farci . See Du Cange s.vv. Farsa, Farsia, and Burney Hist. Music II. 256.) Subsequently the Old French farce , with similar notion, occurs as the name for the extemporaneous amplification or ‘gag’, or the interludes of impromptu buffoonery, which the actors in the religious dramas were accustomed to interpolate into their text. Hence the transition to the modern sense is easy. (The ecclesiastical Latin farsa , farcire , referred to above, have been anglicized by modern writers on liturgical antiquities as farse n., farse v.) 1. a. A dramatic work (usually short) which has for its sole object to excite laughter; an interlude (cf. interlude n. 1). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > a comedy comedy1523 farce1530 interlude?1553 merriment1576 society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > a comedy > a farce farce1530 Atellan1628 burletta1748 sotie1807 farcetta1835 boulevard farce1838 Whitehall farce1956 14.. La Vie de St. Fiacre in Mysterès inédits 15 ^me Siécle (1837) I. 332 Cy est interposé une farsse.] 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 17 Suche as writte farcis and contrefait the vulgare speche. 1559 D. Lindsay Test. Papyngo l. 41 in Wks. (1931) I In ballatts, farses, and in plesand playis. a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 379 Great treumph and blythnes of phrassis and playis maid to hir at hir hame comming... Wpoun the eist syde thair was maid to her ane trieumphant frais [MSS. pheirs] to Schir Dawid Lyndsay of the Mont. a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 381 Greit triumph, phraissis maid and playis wnto the queins grace. a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) II. 125 Singing playing dansing and pheirsis. 1668 S. Pepys Diary 31 July (1976) IX. 270 To the King's House to see the first day of Lacy's ‘Monsieur Ragou’..a Farce. 1726 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius (ed. 2) xliv. 235 Excellent farces so frequently..perform'd in her [Oxford's] convocation-house. 1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 274 A tragedy, pantomime, and farce, were all acted in the course of half an hour. b. That species of the drama which is constituted by such works. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > [noun] > comedy > specific low comedy1608 farce1676 light comedy1698 high comedy1707 comedy of manners1822 comedietta1823 Adelphi screamer1830 commedia dell'arte1877 musical comedy1903 comédie noire1958 alternative comedy1980 1676 J. Dryden in G. Etherege Man of Mode Epil. 96 Those Nauseous Harlequins in Farce may pass. 1717 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 1 Jan. (1965) I. 292 The Scenes were pritty, but the comedy it selfe such intolerable low farce. 1756 R. Hurd Provinces of Drama Introd., in Wks. (1811) II. 30 By Farce I understand, that species of the drama ‘whose sole aim and tendency is to excite Laughter’. 1877 A. W. Ward in Encycl. Brit. VII. 438/1 English comedy seemed inclined to leave to farce the domain of healthy ridicule. 2. Something as ridiculous as a theatrical farce; a proceeding that is ludicrously futile or insincere; a hollow pretence, a mockery. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > [noun] > one who or that which dissembles feigner1382 pseudo1402 simular1526 simuler1534 colourer1554 counterfeiter1561 truphane1568 counterfeit1574 put-forth1581 pretender1583 impostor1586 idol1590 would-be1607 phantasm1622 farce1696 imposture1699 Barmecide1713 simulator1835 fraud1850 sham1850 fake1855 swindle1858 shammer1861 make-believe1863 hoax1869 economizer1874 make-believer1884 ringer1896 phoney1902 faker1910 shill1976 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > fact or condition of being mocked or ridiculed > [noun] > state or quality of being ridiculous > ridiculous proceeding farce1696 1696 tr. J. Dumont New Voy. Levant 296 The Farce is too gross and visible. 1704 M. Prior Ladle 139 A Ladle..is what I want..you have pray'd ill; what should be Great you turn to Farce. 1705 W. Wotton Defense 57 'Tis all with him a Farce and all a Ladle, as a very facetious Poet says. 1762 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy V. xv. 67 Unless every one's life and opinions are to be looked upon as a farce. 1791 E. Burke Corr. (1844) III. 255 It is quite a farce to talk of his liberty. 1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 246 The buzz of notoriety and the farce of fashion. 1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. III. lxxxix. 204 These delegates..duly went through the farce of selecting and voting for persons already determined on by the Ring. Compounds attributive and in other combinations, as farce-scribbler, farce-tragedy, farce-writer; farce-like adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > laughter > causing laughter > [adjective] > comical merryc1390 pleasant1553 comical1575 mowsome1596 zany1616 burlesque1656 humoursome1656 farce-like1681 foolish1691 farcical1715 amusive1727 farciful1731 funny1739 farcic1763 quizzical1785 quizzy1785 quizzish1792 rib-tickling1809 smileable1830 cocasse1868 priceless1907 skit1914 funny-ha-ha1916 gas1955 society > leisure > the arts > literature > writer or author > [noun] > humorous writer comic1549 comedian1580 sarcast1654 scribble-wit1672 farce-writer1681 humorist1871 gag-writer1959 1681 J. Oldham tr. Horace Art of Poetry in Some New Pieces never Publisht 19 Satyrs..Whose Farce-like Gesture, Motion, Speech, and Meen Resembled those of modern Harlequin. 1695 J. Dryden in tr. C. A. Du Fresnoy De Arte Graphica Pref. p. xxvi Farce-Scribblers make use of the same noble invention [laughter] to entertain Citizens. 1710 C. Gildon Life T. Betterton 174 Nay, after these our very Farce Writers deserve more Esteem. 1850 C. Kingsley Alton Locke II. xvi. 259 Those miserable, awful, farce-tragedies of April and June. 1859 H. Morley Jrnl. 5 Nov. (1866) 240 Reasons which a farce-writer is entitled to regard as sufficient. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022). farcev.¹ Brit. /fɑːs/, U.S. /fɑrs/ Forms: Also Middle English–1800s farse, (Middle English faarce, Middle English–1500s fars). Etymology: < Old French farsir (French farcir) = Provençal farsir < Latin farcīre to stuff. Obsolete or archaic. To stuff, to fill full of something. Const. with. †1. a. transitive. In cookery: To stuff (an animal, a piece of meat) with forcemeat, herbs, etc. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > stuffing > stuff [verb (intransitive)] farcea1400 enfarcea1475 the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > stuffing > stuff [verb (transitive)] to stop full1342 farcea1400 force?a1400 stuffc1430 marinate1722 bombard1747 truffle1868 a1400 Medical Receipts in Rel. Ant. 1 51 Farse the catte within als thu farses a gos. c1430 Two Cookery-bks. 41 Broche þin Pygge; þen farce hym. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 545/2 This conye is well farced. 1586 T. Bright Treat. Melancholie xxxix. 259 Pigge..farced with sage. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage ii. xviii. 173 If any farse a henne, the needle must be threeded the day before. 1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Breast of Veal Farce it between the Skin and small Ribs. 1736 N. Bailey Dict. Domesticum 235 To farce Cucumbers. absolute.?1553 (c1501) G. Douglas Palice of Honour (London) ii. l. 1231 in Shorter Poems (1967) 78 Marcyall was cuyk, till rost, seith, fars [1579 Edinb. farce] or fry. †b. to farce together: to make into forcemeat. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > preparation of meat > dress animals for food [verb (transitive)] > dress in specific way hash1615 to farce together1650 fricassee1657 collarc1670 britten1688 roll1702 ragout1710 French1747 turtlea1756 fricandeau1769 haricot1769 surprise1769 1650 N. Ward Discolliminium 46 Polcatts Lites, and Hedgehoggs Livers..farced together with the galls of Wizards. †2. In embalming (see quots.). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > preparation or treatment of corpse > prepare corpse [verb (transitive)] > embalm balmc1300 embalmc1385 gum1419 anointa1425 seasonc1440 spice?a1475 farce1563 condite1649 balsam1855 1563 2nd Tome Homelyes Idolatry iii, in J. Griffiths Two Bks. Homilies (1859) ii. 264 They bury dead bodies farced with spices. 1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 325 Some used to embalm..the belly..farced with cassia. †3. To cram (the stomach, etc., oneself) with food. Also, To fill out (what is lean or shrunken). ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > bodily shape or physique > broad shape or physique > [verb (transitive)] > fat or plump farce14.. alarda1425 plum1561 enseam1562 lard1579 engross1587 impinguate1620 to put on1626 rotund1650 pinguedinize1656 bloat1677 to take ona1750 round1830 pinguefy1893 14.. Prose Legends in Anglia VIII. 154 She was..farsed wiþ goostly fodes. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) ix. 398 With gud morsellis farsis [1489 Adv. fayrcis] thair panch. a1522 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) viii. Prol. 52 A guse..To fars his wame full. 1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor v. iii. sig. Piv If thou would'st farce thy leane Ribs with it too, they would not..rub out so many Dublets. View more context for this quotation a1632 T. Taylor God's Judgem. (1642) i. i. ix. 20 Never ceasing to farse his greedy throat with continuall sustenance. 1669 Addr. Hopeful Young Gentry 39 They farse themselves with the most exquisite delicacies. †4. gen. To cram full of; to pack; also, to overlay thickly. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > presence > fact of taking up space > take up (space or a place) [verb (transitive)] > fill > stuff or cram cramc1000 pitchc1300 thrustc1380 purra1398 stopc1400 farcec1405 stuffc1440 line?1521 enfarce1531 threstc1540 pack1567 prag1567 prop1568 referse1580 thwack1582 ram1590 pang1637 farcinate1638 stivea1639 thrack1655 to craw outa1658 trig1660 steeve1669 stow1710 jam1719 squab1819 farcy1830 cram-jam1880 jam-pack1936 the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > cover [verb (transitive)] > thickly or overwhelmingly mat1577 farce1582 smothera1592 smother1598 overlay1993 c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 233 His typet was ay farsed ful of knyues. 1569 T. Stocker tr. Diodorus Siculus Hist. Successors Alexander iii. xiii. 124 b A couer..made of cowe hides farsed with wolle. 1577 E. Hellowes tr. A. de Guevara Chron. 60 The ayre seemed to be farsed or compound with dust. 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 13 When they [sc. bees]..cels ar farcing with dulce and delicat hoonnye. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 174 His capcase farsed with things of great value. 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. viii. 492/2 A Helmet of excellent proofe full farced with Mayle. 1634 T. Johnson tr. A. Paré Chirurg. Wks. xi. iii. 419 The wound must..be enlarged..that so there may be free passage..for such things as are farced..therein. 5. figurative; esp. To season, ‘spice’ (a composition, speech). Also with up. (Cf. farse v.) ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > excitement > pleasurable excitement > affect with pleasurable excitement [verb (transitive)] > make piquantly exciting farcea1340 seasonc1520 spice1529 sauce?1534 salt1576 savour1578 cantharidize1812 whoosh1909 zap1979 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > vigour or force > imbue with vigour or force [verb (transitive)] > make more piquant or poignant farcea1340 sprinkle1605 cantharidize1812 pepper1835 acuminate1879 a1340 R. Rolle Psalter xvi. 11 Þai held þaire pride farsid in felonyse. c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Hipsiph. & Medea. 1369 Wordes farsed with plesaunce. 1406 T. Hoccleve La Male Regle 13 Farsid was I with hertes gladnesse. c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 49 Stoffid and farsid wiþ gold. a1575 N. Harpsfield Treat. Divorce Henry VIII (1878) (modernized text) 116 The book..is farced with many untruths. 1577 R. Holinshed Hist. Eng. 122/2 in Chron. I With what stuffe our olde historiographers haue farced vp their huge volumes. 1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love Praeludium sig. A4^v Stale Apophthegmes..to farce their Scenes withall. View more context for this quotation a1640 P. Massinger Beleeue as you List (1976) iii. ii. 83 Farce thy leane ribbes with hope. 1678 J. Owen Ζυνεσις Πνευματικη viii. 233 Such notable sayings are many of our late Criticks farced withal. 1830 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I III. xi. 243 Their invectives were well farced for the gross taste of the multitude. 1834 R. Southey Let. in H. Taylor Autobiog. (1885) I. xvi. 280 Farcing it [a book]..with quotations. †6. To stuff or force (something) into something else; also to farce in; in quots. figurative. Also to force (something) through (a strainer). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > removal of impurities > straining > strain [verb (transitive)] syec725 strainc1386 sile14.. sythe1440 farcea1475 colate1631 elutriate1731 colander1887 tammy1903 the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > insert or put in [verb (transitive)] > forcibly > cram or stuff in crama1400 wedge1513 enfarce1564 pester1570 farce1579 stuff1579 ram1582 impact1601 thrum1603 to cramp in1605 crowd1609 impack1611 screw1635 infarciate1657 stodge1674 choke1747 bodkin1793 jam1793 bodkinize1833 pump1899 shoehorn1927 a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 30 Take mustarde..Stomper hit in a morter fyne, And fars hit þurghe a clothe of lyne. 1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 257 He farceth in another slaunder of vs. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage iv. iv. 361 Other prodigious miracles he farseth into his storie. 7. = farse v. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > parts of service > [verb (transitive)] > use amplificatory phrase farce1857 farse1875 1857 Ecclesiologist 18 204 A very curious farced Epistle. 1894 Athenæum 28 July 128/2 A peculiar feature in the recitation is the ‘farcings’ of each psalm, i.e., the introduction of sentences, generally giving some application of the psalm to Christ. 1895 Liturgy of Holy Apostles Adai & Mari 1 There is no farcing at feasts, but a Hallelujah is said. 1907 Mod. Philol. IV. 585 None of these gradual variations caused legend or farced epistle to become anything other than legend and farced epistle. Derivatives ˈfarced adj. in senses of the verb. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > stuffing > [adjective] farcedc1430 forced1538 bacon-farceda1657 marinated1659 stuffed1729 filled1843 the mind > emotion > pride > pomposity > [adjective] pompousc1375 buggish1536 biga1568 bug1567 braving1600 large1608 farceda1616 budge1637 bulky1672 fastuose1674 portentous1805 highfalutin1839 heavy1849 portentious1859 ventose1867 falutin1921 pound-noteish1936 pomposo1960 stuffed-shirted1977 c1430 Two Cookery-bks. 41 Capoun or gos farced. a1475 Liber Cocorum (Sloane) (1862) 36 Pygges farsyd. 1549 T. Chaloner tr. Erasmus Praise of Folie sig. Iij Well farsed tables. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iv. i. 260 The farsed Title running 'fore the King. View more context for this quotation 1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Carp Farced Carps. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † farcev.² Etymology: Compare farce v.¹ 4 and fard v. Obsolete. transitive. To paint (the face). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the skin or complexion > beautify (the skin or complexion) [verb (transitive)] > paint or colour painta1382 farcec1400 farda1450 parget1581 complexion1612 surfle1633 cerusea1640 petre1656 lacquer1688 whitewasha1704 enamel1804 peachify1853 to mug up1859 highlight1935 c1400 Rom. Rose 2285 Farce not thi visage. c1430 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes i. xiv To shere my berde, and farce my vysage With oyntments..To make it souple. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.¹?c1390n.²1530v.¹a1340v.²c1400
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