v. Obs. exc. dial. Forms: 1 fetian, fetiȝ(e)an, 3–6 fett(e, fete, 3 south. vette, 3–5 fott(e, fot(e. 4–5 fatte, (4 fat, 5 fautt, feytte), 3–7 fet, 9 dial. fot. Pa. t. 1 fetode, 1–6 fette, 2 fætte, fatte, featte, south. vatte, vætte, vette, 3–4 fotte, 4–7 fet. Pa. pple. 1 fetod, feotod, 4–6 fett(e, 3–5 fott, 4–5 fotte, 4 fate, 6 fatt, 4–7, 9 dial. fet. [OE. fetian (also ȝefetian), a verb app. of the Teut. -êjan class. Its affinities are obscure; possibly it is related by ablaut to OE. fæt step, fæt vessel, OHG. faẓẓôn (MHG. faẓẓen, mod. G. fassen) to grasp, seize. See FETCH v.
After the OE. period chiefly used in the pa.t. and pa. pple.; hence the normal form fete of the present-stem was from an early date commonly replaced by fet, fett(e, by assimilation to the more frequent forms.]
A synonym of FETCH in various senses.
1. = FETCH v. 1.
a. with obj. a person; = FETCH v. 1 a.
Beowulf, 2625. Wæs to bure Beowulf fetod.
a. 1000. Cædmon’s Gen., 2666 (Gr.).
| He … heht him fetiȝean | |
| to sprecan sine. |
c. 1200. Trin. Coll. Hom., 61. Ure louerd ihesu criste fette adam ut of helle.
1297. R. Glouc. (Rolls), 9218. Þe bissop vette Alisandre of lincolne.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 14965 (Gött.). Gas fet hir me.
c. 1314. Guy Warw. (A.), 4872. Fete hir to me.
c. 1325. Coer de L., 105.
| And the kyng hymselve bad, | |
| That his doughter were forth fette. |
c. 1386. Chaucer, Sompn. T., 451.
| And forth he goth with a foul angry cheere, | |
| And fat his felaw. |
c. 1420. Chron. Vilod., 1931. Hurre soule was fate to heuene wt angels fre.
c. 1440. York Myst., xx. 226. Go furthe and fette youre sone.
1519. Four Elem., in Hazl., Dodsley, I. 43.
| And I will go fet hither a company, | |
| That ye shall hear them sing as sweetly | |
| As they were angels clear. |
1548. Hall, Chron. (1809), 665. A farre frend is not sone fet.
1568. Grafton, Chron., II. 194. The sayd Piers was fet home againe.
1611. Bible, 2 Sam. xi. 27. And when the mourning was past, Dauid sent, and fet her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a sonne: but the thing that Dauid had done, displease the LORD.
1613. Wither, Abuses Stript, II. i. Juven. (1633), 127. Till death doth fet yee.
b. with a thing as obj.; = FETCH v. 1 b.
c. 1250. Gen. & Ex., 2744. He comen water to feten.
1297. R. Glouc. (Rolls), 3073.
| Geans wule vette | |
| Þulke stones vor medicine. |
a. 1300. Cursor M., 12310 (Gött.). Water fra þe welle to fott.
c. 1374. Chaucer, Troylus, V. 852. The wyn men forth hym fette.
c. 1400. Maundev. (1839), iv. 32. Men comen fro fer … for to fetten of that gravelle.
c. 1440. Gesta Rom., lxv. 282 (Harl. MS.). He went home, and fette a long rope.
1521. Bury Wills (1850), 124. For fettyng hom of lede … from Berwill xvjð.
a. 1553. Udall, Royster D., IV. viii. (Arb.), 76. Shall I go fet our goose?
1560. Becon, New Catech., Wks. 1844, II. 304. Jehu … caused … all the images to be fet out of the temple of Baal.
1577. trans. Bullinger’s Decades (1592), 287/1. Let a little water be fett and washe your feete, and refreshe your selues vnder the tree.
1628. Wither, Brit. Rememb., I. 349. Nought But what was fet farre off.
1865. Harland, Lanc. Lyrics, 76. He said he’d fot it every neet.
1876. Oxfordsh. Gloss., s.v. Fet, I ha’ bin an’ fot a bit a coal.
2. = FETCH v. 2.
a. 1000. Prov. (Kemble), 61 (Bosw.). Ælc ydel fet unhælo.
1387. Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), I. 173. Þei … fette to hem grete strengþe.
c. 1420. Pallad. on Husb., IV. 192.
| Thaire seede therof [water] uppe wol be fette | |
| By rootes, and in lenght away thai creep. |
1559. Ludlow Churchw. Acc. (Camden), 94. For my charges goinge to Herforde fatt be a sitacion.
1602. Warner, Alb. Eng., IX. li. (1612), 230.
| This Spanish Inquisition is | |
| A Trappe, so slyelie set, | |
| As into it Wise, Godly, Rich, | |
| By Blanchers bace are fet. |
3. = FETCH v. 5.
c. 1175. Lamb. Hom., 83. He uatte þet he nes and nawiht ne lefde of þet he wes.
c. 1205. Lay., 29673. Moni mon þer uætte hele.
a. 1225. Leg. Kath., 2499.
| I þe munt of Synai, | |
| þer Moyses fatte þe lahe | |
| at ure Lauerd. |
c. 1275. Lay., 6460.
| Þe king … | |
| toward þan deore | |
| Þare he deaþ featte. |
c. 1340. Gaw. & Gr. Knt., 451.
| To þe grene chapel þou chose, I charge þe to fotte, | |
| Such a dunt as þou hatȝ dalt disserued þou habbeȝ. |
c. 1420. Chron. Vilod., 2346. Crokette & maymotte fatton þere hurre hele.
1432–50. trans. Higden (Rolls), I. 319. Þere [Colchos] Iason fette þe golden flees.
a. 1450. in Eng. Gilds (1870), 447. At qwat place the bretheren … shul fetten her wax.
c. 1460. Towneley Myst., 17. Thus am I comen bofettes to fott.
4. = FETCH v. 6, 6 b, c.
a. 1300. Cursor Mundi, 36 (Cott.). He fettes fro þe rote his kynd.
1393. Gower, Conf., I. 44.
| Wherof the worlde ensample fette | |
| May after this, whan I am go. |
c. 1430. Lydg., Min. Poems (Percy Soc.), 20.
| To se their kyng withe two crownys schyne, | |
| From two trewes trewly fet the lyne. |
1526. Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W., 1531), 206 b. Thou shalt … fette … thy confort of his blessed deth and passion.
1547. J. Harrison, Exhort. Scottes, 212. To fet our examples not out of straunge countreys, loke well vpon the Chronicles of this island of Britain.
1588. Fraunce, Lawiers Log., I. i. 4 b. An argument is either inherent or fet elsewhere.
5. = FETCH v. 7.
1556. J. Heywood, Spider & F., xiii. I. The flie … fet such a persing sigh.
1642. H. More, Song of Soul, I. III. lxvii. When these two old ones their last gasp had fet.
6. = FETCH v. 9.
1297. R. Glouc. (1724), 437.
| & verrore her wey uette | |
| To þe kynges owe ost of France. |
c. 1425. Seven Sag. (Percy Soc.), 957.
| The bore … bygan tothes to wette, | |
| And to the tre byre he fette. |
1470–85. Malory, Arthur, X. ii. He … fette his cours and came hurlynge vpon sir palomydes.
1583. Golding, Calvin on Deut. xi. 61. After the people had fet a windlasse and trayled about the mountaine Seir.
1651. Fuller’s Abel Rediv., Tailor, 177. He leap’t, and fet a frisk, or two.
7. = FETCH v. 10 a.
a. 1547. Surrey, Æneid, II. 34.
| And, weening we they had been fled and gone, | |
| And with that wind had fet the land of Greece. |
1563. Mirr. Mag., Induct. lxxi.
| We hoyse vp mast and sayle, that in a while | |
| We fet the shore. |
8. Idiomatically combined with advbs.: see FETCH v. II. To fet again: to restore to consciousness. To fet in: to take in a supply of. To fet off: to ‘pick off,’ kill.
a. 1553. Udall, Royster D., III. iii. (Arb.), 46. I will rubbe your temples, and fette you againe.
1602. Sir H. Dockwra, Let., in Moryson, Itin., II. III. i. 259. I … got in a sufficient quantity of Corne, to feed the Horse neere all the Winter long, fet in turffe and old houses for fewell.
1603. Knolles, Hist. Turks (1621), 416. The Christians in the meane time with vigilant eye so attending the Turkes, that none of them could stir within shot, but he was forthwith fet off and slaine. Ibid., 582. Certaine Turks which greatly disliked the hard beginning of this siege, and were now ready to depart: did but stir, in danger to be fet off with shot out of the towne, earnestly requested the marriners to take them with them into the maine.
1635. N. R., Camden’s Hist. Eliz., III. xxviii. 285. Cuba … where they fet in fresh … water.
