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† ficche, v. Obs. Forms: 4–5 fitch(en, (ficchyn, fichch, fichene, fycche), ficche, fich, (5 fychch), 4–6 fych(e. [a. OF. fichier (mod.F. ficher) = Pr. ficar, Sp. hincar, fincar, ficar, Pg. fincar, ficar, It. ficcare: referred by Diez to a popular L. *fīgicare, extension of L. fīgĕre to fix.] 1. trans. To fix, fasten, make firm, establish; both in a material and an immaterial sense.
c1340Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 658 Alle þese fyue syþez..were..fyched upon fyue poyntes. c1374Chaucer Boeth. ii. iv. 45 Haue mynde certeynly to ficchyn þi house of a myrie site in a lowe stoone. 1382Wyclif Josh. iv. 3 In the place of tentis, where ȝe this nyȝt fitchen tentis. 1412–13Hoccleve Counsel to Hen. V, 9 God dreede and ficche in him your trust. 1430Lydg. Chron. Troy v. xxxvi, To fyche fynally the date. c1477Caxton Jason 94 Whan she hadde put al these thinges in a balance and fiched in her engyn she began to recomforte medea. [1530Palsgr. 549/1, I Fyche (Lydgat), I stedye or make ferme or stedfaste, Je fiche. This terme is nat yet [i.e. no longer] admytted. ] b. To stud, furnish with something infixed.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints, Catharina 852 Foure quhelis..Of þe quhilkis þe felyis all With scharpe houkis fichit be sall. 1413Lydg. Pilgr. Sowle iii. iv. (1483) 52 The compas of this whele was fitched ful of hokes. 2. To pierce, penetrate; lit. and fig.
1388Wyclif Ps. xxxiv. 16 Thei ben scaterid and not ficchid with sorewe. a1400Morte Arth. 2098 Thay flitt fulle frescly þer frekez, ffichene with fetheris thurghe þe fyne maylez. a1400Arthur 462 Quarels, arwes, þey fly smerte; Þe fyched Men þruȝ heed & herte. Hence ˈficching vbl. n., in quot. concr. the place where anything is fixed, the ‘print’.
1382Wyclif John xx. 25, I schal se in his hondis the ficching of naylis. |