farctate

Adjective

farctate (comparative more farctate, superlative most farctate)

1. (obsolete) Stuffed; filled solid.
   • Stem stout and farctate.1917, South African Journal of Science - Volume 13, page 100
   • In species such as P. lejolisii, the young tetrasporangia are pigmented and the sporangium remains farctate throughout development, with the eventual septa appearing as thin lines in side view.1984, Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History).: Botany, page 328
2. (broadly) Full.
   • A statement farctate with meaning for those who throughout the years have made Brown Hall their home.1967, Bric-a-brac, page 148
   • It is farctate with the sort of statistics that paper-writers love quoting.1971, Engineering - Volume 210, page 63
3. Stuffed; full from overeating.
   • In the hotel restaurant, we had a seventeen-course banquet that we washed down with vodka, cognac, and beer. We walked out farctate, belching, and flatulent.2011, V Traven, Memoirs of a Dromomaniac, page 115
   • Samuel guzzled some golden liquid from a hip-flask plucked from a pocket of his brocaded dark blue jacket (which clashed outrageously, as every item of his clothing always did, with every other, with his orange cravat, maroon shirt, “M' favourite wesskit,” – taut over his farctate belly – of...2020, Alex Burcher, As Ants to the Gods