Expressing determination, insistence, or persistence without temporal reference (cf. sense 12). In emphatic use. Be fully determined to; insist on or…

passive. To have one's mind or will fixed upon something.

to be bent: to be intent, determined, resolved. Const. on or upon (to, for, obsolete) an object or action; also (archaic) to do (something).

intransitive. To be determined or insistent to (do something). Cf. to stand in 1 at phrasal verbs 1. Obsolete.

to sit fast upon (something): to make (something) the sole basis for one's position or argument; to be insistent upon. Obsolete.

To have its existence based upon, or depending on. Obsolete.

intransitive. With for: to stand up for, to champion; to insist on.