far reaching (farre ching)

Tending to exert an influence and produce an effect in remote quarters or for a long time. The ambiguity of the term [natural expectations] conceals a fundamental conflict of ideas, which appears more profound and far reaching in its consequences the more we examine it. H. Sidgwick , Methods of Ethics, p. 245. farreation (far-e-a'shọn), n. [ farrea tio (n-), equiv. to L. confarreatio (n-): see con farreation .] Same as confarreation . Farreidæ (fa-rē'i-dē), n. pl. [NL., farrier A ferrour for meth not his metal, but zif it wole be temperid. Wyclif, Select Works (ed. Arnold), I. 407. 2. A smith who shoes horses; more generally, one who combines the art of horseshoeing with the profe ion of veterinary surgery. Yche a hors that ferroure schalle scho. Book of Curtasye, 615. Alas! what Lock or Iron Engine is 't That can thy subtle secret strength resist, Sith the best Farrier cannot set a shoo So sure, but thou (so shortly) canst vndoo? Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 3. Poppæa, the empre e, wife to Nero the Emperour, was knowne to cause her ferrers ordinarily to shoe her coach horses. with cleane gold. Holland, tr. of Pliny, xxxiii. 11.