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Old English
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *bifastijan, equivalent to be- (“around”) + fæstan (“to secure, fasten”).
Pronunciation
Verb
befæstan
- (transitive) to fasten; fix; ground; establish; make safe; put in safe keeping
- (transitive) to apply; utilize; commend; entrust to
- (transitive) to commit
- late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies
...Gyf ðū ēnigne gōdne heorde hæbbe þe wel cunne healdan þæt þæt þū gestrēone and him befæste, scēawa hyne me; […]- If thou have any good steward that can well hold that which thou gettest and committest unto him, show him to me;
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