farctate
English edit
Etymology edit
Latin farctus, past participle of farciō. See farce.
Adjective edit
farctate (comparative more farctate, superlative most farctate)
- (botany, obsolete) Stuffed; filled solid.
- 1917, South African Journal of Science - Volume 13, page 100:
- Stem stout and farctate.
- 1984, Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History).: Botany, page 328:
- In species such as P. lejolisii, the young tetrasporangia are pigmented and the sporangium remains farctate throughout development, with the eventual septa appearing as thin lines in side view.
- a farctate leaf, stem, or pericarp
- 2021, Donald Wesling, Internal Resistances: The Poetry of Edward Dorn, page 63:
- Its surface is possessed of a mild satin glow, an encircling gestalt which seems independent of stock solar light. It is otherwise farctate.
- (by extension) Full; chocka.
- 1967, Bric-a-brac, page 148:
- A statement farctate with meaning for those who throughout the years have made Brown Hall their home.
- 1971, Engineering - Volume 210, page 63:
- It is farctate with the sort of statistics that paper-writers love quoting.
- 2013, Ben Watson, Derek Bailey: And the Story of Free Improvisation:
- Bailey's blurting, jilted phrases are a riot of rhythmic invention because they forever turn on the contradiction between public rhetoric and private conscience – as farctate with dynamics, unlikely contrasts and neologisms as a soliloquy in a Shakespeare play.
- Stuffed; full from overeating.
- 2011, V Traven, Memoirs of a Dromomaniac, page 115:
- In the hotel restaurant, we had a seventeen-course banquet that we washed down with vodka, cognac, and beer. We walked out farctate, belching, and flatulent.
- 2020, Alex Burcher, As Ants to the Gods:
- Samuel guzzled some golden liquid from a hip-flask plucked from a pocket of his brocaded dark blue jacket (which clashed outrageously, as every item of his clothing always did, with every other, with his orange cravat, maroon shirt, “M' favourite wesskit,” – taut over his farctate belly – of mustard yellow with pink buttons, red britches held up by another cravat, this one green, for a belt, orange socks – “To match the first cravat, of course!– and silver-buckled shoes so shiny black as to be ugly).
- 2021, David Profumo, The Lightning Thread:
- Picnics are like parachutes: to avoid surprises, you should always pack your own. Bapped offcuts and a thermos of some hotel's dishwater soup are most unwelcome, and unless we are going to enjoy an afternoon's farctate snooze I prefer to travel light with a simple 'piece' in my pocket (buttered oatcake, cheddar, saucisson sec, Kendal Mint Cake): besides, normal lunchtimes often coincide with fish-taking times, so it can prove counterproductive to stop.