farctate

Latin farctus, past participle of farciō. See farce.

farctate (comparative more farctate, superlative most farctate)

1. (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.

2. (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.

3. 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.

• hollow
• tubular

• artefact