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.
    • Sir T. Elyot
      The body is infarced with […] watery humours.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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