foppery

[Eng.fop; -ery.] *1. Deceit, trickery. "The sudden surprise of my powers, drove the gro ne of the foppery into a received belief."-Shakesp.: Merry Wives of Windsor, v. 5. 2. The conduct or manners of a fop; dandyism, coxcombry; affectation of show; showy folly. "Between foppery on the one hand and slovenline on the other."-Water land: Works , x. 241. *3. Foolery; foolish practices; folly. "An independent fortune of seven you sand pounds 8 year, which he lavished in costly fopperies ." -Macaulay: Hist. Eng ., ch. xxv. *4. A gew-gaw; a vain ornament. fop-pish, a. [Eng. fop; -ish.] 1. Vain or ostentatious in dre or show; dre ing in the extreme of fashion; affected in dre and IMG:content-1886.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1887.png:[blocks in formation] "He quivered with his feet, and lay for dead." Dryden: Palamon and Arcite, iii. 704. 19. Conducive to; beneficial to. "It can never be for the interest of a believer to do me a mischief, because he is sure, upon the balance of accounts, to find himself a loser by it."- Add is on . 20. In favor of; siding with; favorable or willing to. "He's for his master." --Shakesp.: Cymbeline, i. 5. 21. In comparison with. "Too ma y for your strengths." Shakesp.: Tempest, iii. 3. 22. In proportion to or with; considering. "He is not very tall, yet for his years he's tall." Shakesp.: As You Like It , iii. 5. 23. With a view to; tending to in order to obtain. "For more a urance I embrace thy body." Shakesp.: Tempest, v. 24. In quest of; in search of. "Philosophers have run so far bace for arguments of comfort against pain, as to doubt whether there were any such thing."- Til lots on . 25. Toward; with the intention of going to; on the road to. "Are there no posts despatched for Ireland?" Shakesp.: Richard 11., ii. 2. 26. Inducing as a motive toward. IMG:content-1888.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1889.png:[blocks in formation] for for-(1), pref . [A. S. for ; Icel. for ; Dan. for Sw. för- ; Dut. & Ger. ver- ; Goth. fra- ; Sansc. pará-.] Foras a prefix to verbs has three forces: 1. An intensive force; equivalent to utterly, extremely, completely, very greatly; as in forlorn = utterly lorn or lonely; forwearied = wearied out; for drunken=very drunk, . 2. A negative or privative force: as in forbid =to bid away from, to prohibit; forfend = to keep or fend off, to avert, . 3. The force of ami or badly: as, for shapen = badly shapen, mi hapen. for-(2), pref . [O. Fr. for- , from Latin for is outside.] A prefix with the force of outside, without: as in foreclose (properly for close) = to shut out, to exclude; forfeit=done beyond or outside. for-age (age as Ig), *for-rage, s . [O. Fr. four age (Fr. for err age ), from forrer = to forage, from forre , fuerre (Fr. feurre )=fodder, straw, from Low Lat.fodium ; from O. Dan. foder = fodder (q. v.); Sp. for rage ; Port. forragem : Ital.foraggio .] 1. Fodder, provisions; especially such as are obtained by pillage. "Cæsar sent forth all his men of arms for for rage ." Goldinge: Cæsar , p. 118. 2. The act of seeking for or providing provisions; the act of foraging. 3. A pasture or feeding place. "One way a band select from forage drives A herd of beeves." Milton: P. L. , xi. 646. *4. The act of preying; ravage; destructive fury. "He [the lion] from forage will incline to play." Shakesp.: Love's Labor's Lost , iv. 1. *5. Food of any kind. "With greens and flowers recruit their empty hives, And seek fresh forage to sustain their lives." Dryden: Virgil ; Georgic iv. 364, 365.