poet. Also 7 fawne, 5–7 phane. [ad. L. fān-um temple.] A temple.

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14[?].  Lydg., Lyfe of our Ladye (Caxton), H j.

        To haue answer in her best entent
How long this fane ryal of asyse … sholde last.
    Ibid. (1430), Chronicle of Troy, II. xiii.
For in this phane as they knele and wake.

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1563–87.  Foxe, A. & M. (1596), 107/1. The idolatrous temples and phanes.

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1637.  Heywood, Dial., iv. 62.

        The bolt averted light upon the phane
Where the two brothers deify’de remaine.

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1727–46.  Thomson, Summer, 758. Where Palaces, and Fanes, and Villas rise.

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1814.  Scott, Ld. of Isles, IV. x.

        Nor doth its entrance front in vain
To old Iona’s holy fane.

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1850.  Tennyson, In Mem., lvi.

        Man, her last work, who seem’d so fair,
    Such splendid purpose in his eyes,
    Who roll’d the psalm to wintry skies,
Who built him fanes of fruitless prayer.

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  transf. and fig.  a. 1618.  Sylvester, Du Bartas, Panaretus 656.

          Then well fare Valour: and, long live the Story
Of Valiant Princes in the Fane of Glory.

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a. 1839.  Praed, Poems (1864), II. 54, ‘To Julia.’

        Denote the fane where Fashion dwells,—
‘Lyce’s Academy for Belles.’

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  Hence † Faned ppl. a. [+ -ED2], having a fane; enshrined.

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1633.  Ford, Love’s Sacrifice, II. ii.

        ’Tis such a picture as might well become
The shrine of some fan’d Venus.

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