infarce

English

Etymology

From Latin infarcire, from in- (“in”) + farcire, fartum, farctum (“to stuff, cram”).

Verb

infarce (third-person singular simple present infarces, present participle infarcing, simple past and past participle infarced)

1. (obsolete) To stuff; to swell.
   • 1531, Thomas Elyot, edited by Ernest Rhys, The Boke Named the Governour […] (Everyman’s Library), London: J[oseph] M[alaby] Dent & Co; New York, N.Y.: E[dward] P[ayson] Dutton & Co, published [1907], →OCLC:

     every place is so infarced with profitable counsaile , joyned with honestie

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “infarce”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Francie, fancier, firecan