Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Fare \Fare\, 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.

            So on he fares, and to the border comes Of Eden.
                                                  --Milton.

   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.

            So fares the stag among the enraged hounds.
                                                  --Denham.

            I bid you most heartily well to fare. --Robynson
                                                  (More's
                                                  Utopia).

            So fared the knight between two foes. --Hudibras.

   3. To be treated or entertained at table, or with bodily or
      social comforts; to live.

            There was a certain rich man wwhich . . . fared
            sumptuously every day.                --Luke xvi.
                                                  19.

   4. To happen well, or ill; -- used impersonally; as, we shall
      see how it will fare with him.

            Sso fares it when with truth falsehood contends.
                                                  --Milton.

   5. To behave; to conduct one's self. [Obs.]

            She ferde [fared] as she would die.   --Chaucer.