Also 7 farwell. [f. prec.] a. trans. To take leave of, bid or say good bye to. b. intr. To say good-bye.
1580. Sidney, Arcadia (1622), 93.
| Till she brake from their armes (although indeed | |
| Going from them, from them she could not go) | |
| And fare-welling the flocke did homeward wend, | |
| And so that even the barly-brake did end. |
1606. trans. Rollock’s Lect. on 1 & 2 Thess. I. xxvi. 325. After tryell if thou findst it [his doctrine] sound … keep it; if not, fairewell it.
a. 1657. R. Loveday, Letters (1663), 28. It put some doubts to flight that you had farwell’d Barningham.
a. 1693. Urquhart, Rabelais, III. xliii. 356. Pantagruel vailing his Cap, and making a Leg, with such a Majestick Garb as became a Person of his paramount Degree and Eminency, farewell’d Trinquamelle the President, and Master-Speaker of that Merlinguesian Parliament, took his leave of the whole Court, and went out of the Chamber.
1885. R. F. Burton, 1001 Nights, I. 122. She farewelled me with her dying eyes.
