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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Farce

Färçe, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. FARCED (färst); p. pr. & vb. n. FARCING.] [Lat. farcire, Fr. farcir, Pr. farsir.] [Obs.] 1. To stuff with force-meat; hence, to fill with mingled ingredients. The first principles of religion should not be farced with school points and private tenets. Sanderson.

  1. To render fat. [Obs.] “If thou wouldst farce thy lean ribs.” B. Johnson.
  2. To swell out; to render pompous. [Obs.] “The farced title.” Shak.

Färçe, n.

noun

n. [Fr. farce, It., Sp., & Pg. farse, from Lat. farsus, p. p. of farcire, to stuff. See supra.]

  1. (Cookery.) Stuffing or mixture of viands, like that used in dressing a fowl; force-meat.
  2. A low style of comedy; a dramatic composition marked by low humor, generally written with little regard to regularity or method, and abounding with ludicrous incidents and expressions. The dialogue is usually low, the persons of inferior rank, and the fable or action trivial or ridiculous.

Farce is that in poetry which “grotesque” is in a picture: the persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false. Dryden. 3. Ridiculous or empty show; as, a mere farce. “The farce of state.” Pope.