Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- 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.
Wiktionary
- v. obsolete to confide; to trust
- v. obsolete to betroth or espouse; to affiance
- n. slang An affidavit to be signed by a contest winner to confirm eligibility.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. obsolete To confide (one's self
to , orin ); to trust. - v. obsolete To betroth or espouse; to affiance.
- v. obsolete To bind in faith.
- v. obsolete To trust or confide.
Etymologies
- Shortening of affidavit. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“February 10, 2008 at 6:58 am affy-est kitteh be takin cheezburgers.”
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“Do I need an affy…afi… note frum mai Momma sayin she gibed it to me?”
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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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“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
“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
“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
“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.”
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