farset

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But the sence is much altered & the hearers conceit strangly entangled by the figure _Metalepsis_, which I call the farset, as when we had rather fetch a word a great way off then to vse one nerer hand to expresse the matter aswel & plainer.

The Arte of English Poesie George Puttenham
A clown -- Struan -- his thin frame throbbing with fire, and his eyes of a hawk in a cage, farset, communing with invisible things!

Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution Maurice Hewlett 1892