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noun

Farce n.

(Cookery) Stuffing, or mixture of viands, like that used on dressing a fowl; forcemeat.

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. "Farce is that in poetry which "grotesque" is in a picture: the persons and action of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false."

Ridiculous or empty show; as, a mere farce. "The farce of state."

verb

Farce v. t. (past & past part. farced, pres. part. farcing)

To stuff with forcemeat; hence, to fill with mingled ingredients; to fill full; to stuff. (Obs.) "The first principles of religion should not be farced with school points and private tenets." "His tippet was aye farsed full of knives."

To render fat. (Obs.) "If thou wouldst farce thy lean ribs."

To swell out; to render pompous. (Obs.) "Farcing his letter with fustian."

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"Farce" Quotes from Famous Books

... This fearful farce was enacted in the cemetery of St. Ouen, behind the beautifully severe monastic church so called, and which had by that day assumed its present appearance. On a scaffolding raised for the purpose sat Cardinal ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 • Various

... inconsistencies and contradictions, and displayed his insatiable thirst for public office. All the sympathies of the Democratic party had been his antipathies, all their hates his loves, and many of their leaders spoke of him publicly with contempt. Indeed, his campaign would have been a farce had not his untimely death made it a tragedy. Ridicule killed him politically, and his political failure was the immediate cause of his ...

— Perley's Reminiscences, Vol. 1-2 - of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis • Benjamin Perley Poore

... vanity made a farce of the funeral. A big, bull-necked publican, with heavy, blotchy features, and a supremely ignorant expression, picked up the priest's straw hat and held it about two inches over the head of his reverence during the whole of ...

— While the Billy Boils • Henry Lawson

... his eyes to heaven, with a look of appealing innocence; but I was wearied with this odious farce. ...

— Devereux, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton

... once. Dick has announced his engagement to an actress—a soubrette, too, in a farce-comedy. If it had been a woman who played Shakespeare, it would have been bad enough, but a girl who sings and dances and does all sorts of things, including wearing her dresses up-side down, as it were—that is, ...

— The Smart Set - Correspondence & Conversations • Clyde Fitch

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