v. Obs. Also 5 enfarse, 6–7 infarce, -se. [a. F. enfarc-ir, ad. L. infarcīre.]
1. To stuff a. (a sucking pig, etc.) with force-meat; b. (the belly, oneself) with food.
c. 1420. Liber. Cocorum (1862), 36. Put alle in body of þo pygge, Rost hit on broche of irne bygge Enfarsed.
1543. Becon, New Year’s Gift, Wks. (1843), 322. How doth the glutton … enfarce it [his belly] with all kind of dainties!
1574. Newton, Health Mag., C iv. If the partie … haue not longe afore enfarced himselie with plentie of meate.
2. transf. and fig.
1531. Elyot, Gov., I. iii. (1883), I. 27. Redynge this warke, infarced througly with suche histories and sentences. Ibid., II. vi. II. 55. A man … by furie chaunged in to an horrible figure, his face infarced with rancour. Ibid. (1533), Cast. Helthe, III. i. (1541), 53 b. The body is infarced eyther with choler, yelowe or blacke, or with fleume.
1542. Becon, Potat. Lent, Wks. 1564, I. 35 b. Souls, replenished and enfarsed with celestiall meate.
1543. Grafton, Contn. Harding, 528. Letters enfarced and replenysshed with all humanytee.
3. To stuff (something) into. Also fig. (contemptuously) to interpolate.
1564. Brief Exam., *iiij 6. Ye woulde not be so busie to infarce in your bookes the reproche of these men.
1566. Drant, Horace, a iv. b. Thauthors must be full Of fostred arte, infarst in ballasde breste.
1578. Banister, Hist. Man, I. 13. This neither iawe … hath on eche side propper cauities with marey infarced.
1601. Holland, Pliny, XXXV. xiv. The earth thus infarced [between planks] continueth a world of yeres.
1623. Lisle, Ælfric on O. & N. T., Pref. c j b. The Latine Copy-clarke … hath enfarced these words; Quamuis ipse [etc.].
1624. F. White, Repl. Fisher, Pref. 8. He … infarceth here a rapsodie.
Hence Enfarcing vbl. sb.
1623. Lisle, Ælfric on O. & N. T., Pref. By the infarcing afterward of these epistles by byshops into their bokes of Cannons.
