Fared

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Fare \Fare\ (f[^a]r), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Fared}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Faring}.] [AS. faran to travel, fare; akin to OS., Goth.,
     & OHG. faran to travel, go, D. varen, G. fahren, OFries.,
     Icel., & Sw. fara, Dan. fare, Gr. ????? a way through,
     ??????? a ferry, strait, ???????? to convey, ?????????? to
     go, march, ????? beyond, on the other side, ????? to pass


     through, L. peritus experienced, portus port, Skr. par to
     bring over. [root]78. Cf. {Chaffer}, {Emporium}, {Far},
     {Ferry}, {Ford}, {Peril}, {Port} a harbor, {Pore}, n.]
     1. To go; to pass; to journey; to travel.
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              So on he fares, and to the border comes
              Of Eden.                              --Milton.
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     2. To be in any state, or pass through any experience, good
        or bad; to be attended with any circummstances or train of
        events, fortunate or unfortunate; as, he fared well, or
        ill.
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              So fares the stag among the enraged hounds.
                                                    --Denham.
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              I bid you most heartily well to fare. --Robynson
                                                    (More's
                                                    Utopia).
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              So fared the knight between two foes. --Hudibras.
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     3. To be treated or entertained at table, or with bodily or
        social comforts; to live.
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              There was a certain rich man which . . . fared
              sumptuously every day.                --Luke xvi.
                                                    19.
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     4. To happen well, or ill; -- used impersonally; as, we shall
        see how it will fare with him.
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              So fares it when with truth falsehood contends.
                                                    --Milton.
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     5. To behave; to conduct one's self. [Obs.]
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              She ferde [fared] as she would die.   --Chaucer.
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