† ˈfar-fet, a. Obs.
[f. far adv. + fet, pa. pple. of fet v. Obs.]
1. = far-fetched 1.
| 1579 Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 93 Farre fet and deere bought is good for Ladyes. 1581 Sidney Astr. & Stella (1622) 536 Those far-fet helpes. 1613 Beaum. & Fl. Honest Man's Fort. iii. iii, Your far-fet viands please not My appetite. 1671 Milton P.R. ii. 401 Others..Whose pains have earn'd the far-fet spoil. |
2. = far-fetched 2.
| 1533 More Answ. Poysoned Bk. Wks. 1123/2 In..hys farre fet reason, neyther is hys maior true, nor hys argument toucheth not the matter. 1580 Sidney Arcadia iii. (1590) 360 Therewith he told her a farre-fet tale. a 1680 Butler Rem. (1759) II. 116 For Metaphors, he uses to chuse the..most far fet that he can light upon. |
3. as n. (See quot.) rare—1.
| 1589 Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. xvii. (Arb.) 193 The figure Metalepsis, which I call the farfet, as when we had rather fetch a word a great way off then to vse one nerer hand to expresse the matter aswel and plainer. |