Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To trust, confide (a thing to a person); reflexively, to confide one's self.
- To confide in; trust.
- To affirm on one's faith; make affidavit.
- To assure by promise; pledge; betroth; affiance.
- To engage; bind; join.
- To trust; confide.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb obsolete To trust or confide.
- transitive verb obsolete To confide (one's self
to , orin ); to trust. - transitive verb obsolete To betroth or espouse; to affiance.
- transitive verb obsolete To bind in faith.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun slang An
affidavit to be signed by acontest winner to confirmeligibility . - verb obsolete to
confide ; totrust - verb obsolete to
betroth orespouse ; toaffiance
Etymologies
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Examples
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Do I need an affy…afi… note frum mai Momma sayin she gibed it to me?
finding emo - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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February 10, 2008 at 6:58 am affy-est kitteh be takin cheezburgers.
Agnostic kitteh - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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We'll divide stores with you, man for man; and I'll give my affy-davy, as before to speak the first ship I sight, and send 'em here to pick you up.
Treasure Island 1883
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Either you come aboard along of us, once the treasure shipped, and then I'll give you my affy-davy, upon my word of honour, to clap you somewhere safe ashore.
Treasure Island 1883
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Either you come aboard along of us, once the treasure shipped, and then I'll give you my affy-davy, upon my word of honor, to clap you somewhere safe ashore.
Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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We'll divide stores with you, man for man; and I'll give my affy-davy, as before, to speak the first ship I sight, and send 'em here to pick you up.
Treasure Island Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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"I should account him to mean that he held Master Godfrey for a true man, in whom man might safely affy him; but that he felt not thus sure of Master Matthew."
The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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To believe that a man lived and died, Phyllis, is not to accept his help, and to affy thee in his trustworthiness.
The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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Robin had brave reward from the King, and my Lady the Queen was pleased to advance me, as shall now be told, shortly thereafter: and ever afterwards did she seem to affy her more in me, as in one that had been tried and proved faithful unto trust.
In Convent Walls The Story of the Despensers Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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The matter presseth, and will brook no delay: and we affy ourself in you, Lady, as a woman obedient to the Church, that you will observe our bidding.
The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century Emily Sarah Holt 1864
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