reflexive and in passive. To be firmly resolved. Obsolete.

With †will (in past would) in optative sense, expressing determination, fixity of purpose, or insistence. Now rare.

To set or station themselves round, to surround with hostile intent. To occupy (a road, gate, or passage), esp. so as to prevent any one from passing.

intransitive. To have a purpose, plan, or design; esp. in the proverbial phrase man purposes, God disposes (dispose, v. 7a; cf. also man proposes, (bu…

to be determined, to have come to a decision or definite resolve (to do something); to be finally and firmly resolved. (Cf. determined, adj.)

passive and intransitive. To be resolved, resolve. Obsolete exc. northern dialect const. infinitive.

To make up one's mind; esp. to resolve or determine to do something. Cf. phrases 3a. Obsolete (archaic and rare in later use).

To stay in action, to hesitate, ‘stick’. Const. at. to stop at nothing, to be prevented by no obstacle.

British colloquial. Courage, resolution. Chiefly in to keep one's pecker up: to remain cheerful or steadfast.