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Webster 1913 Edition
Farse
Farse
,Noun.
[See ]
Farce
, Noun.
(Eccl.)
An addition to, or a paraphrase of, some part of the Latin service in the vernacular; – common in English before the Reformation.
Definition 2024
farse
farse
See also: Färse
English
Noun
farse (plural farses)
- A vernacular paraphrase inserted into Latin liturgy.
Verb
farse (third-person singular simple present farses, present participle farsing, simple past and past participle farsed)
- (transitive) To insert vernacular paraphrases into (a Latin liturgy).
- 2010, Frank C. Senn, The People's Work: A Social History of the Liturgy (page 138)
- There is also evidence of glossing (or farsing) the texts of the Epistles read in the masses of the Christmas Octave.
- 2010, Frank C. Senn, The People's Work: A Social History of the Liturgy (page 138)
References
- OED 2nd edition 1989