yfere

English

Etymology

From Old English ge- fēra 'associate, comrade, fellow-disciple'.

Adverb

yfere (not comparable)

1. (obsolete, poetic) Together. [13th–18th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     So goodly all agreed they forth yfere did ryde.

Anagrams

• feyer, reefy

Middle English

Adverb

yfere

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   • c. 1380s, [Geoffrey Chaucer, William Caxton, editor], The Double Sorow of Troylus to Telle Kyng Pryamus Sone of Troye [...] [Troilus and Criseyde], [Westminster]: Explicit per Caxton, published 1482, →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], book 2, [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:

     Of this and that they pleide and gonnen wade / In many an vnkouth, gladde, and depe matere, / As frendes doon whan thei ben mette y-fere [...].

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