farctate

comparative more farctate · superlative most farctate

1. obsoletebiologyStuffed; filled solid.

   a farctate leaf, stem, or pericarp

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   Stem stout and farctate.

   1917, South African Journal of Science - Volume 13, page 100

   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.

   1984, Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History).: Botany, page 328

   Its surface is possessed of a mild satin glow, an encircling gestalt which seems independent of stock solar light. It is otherwise farctate.

   2021, Donald Wesling, Internal Resistances: The Poetry of Edward Dorn, page 63

2. broadlyFull.

   It is farctate with the sort of statistics that paper-writers love quoting.

   1971, Engineering - Volume 210, page 63

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   A statement farctate with meaning for those who throughout the years have made Brown Hall their home.

   1967, Bric-a-brac, page 148

   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.

   2013, Ben Watson, Derek Bailey: And the Story of Free Improvisation

3. Stuffed; full from overeating.

   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.

   2011, V Traven, Memoirs of a Dromomaniac, page 115

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   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).

   2020, Alex Burcher, As Ants to the Gods

   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.

   2021, David Profumo, The Lightning Thread