Obs. [f. prec. sb.] a. intr. To place or rest one’s faith on. b. trans. To provide with a creed or standard of faith. c. To utter upon one’s word of honor. d. To give credit to, believe, trust.
1430. Lydgate, Chronicle of Troy, I. vi.
| By whose example women may well lere. | |
| How they shuld faith or trusten on any man. |
1547. Hooper, Declar. Christ, v. These decrees that papistry of late days faithed the church withal.
1553. Grimalde, Cicero’s Offices, I. (1558), 10. It is called faithfulnes because it is fulfilled which was faithed [quia fiat quod dictum est].
1570–6. Lambarde, A Perambulation of Kent (1826), 221. He shall have cause neither to falsifie the one opinion lightly, nor to faith the other unadvisedly.
1605. Shaks., Lear, II. i. 72.
| If I would stand against thee, would the reposal | |
| Of any trust, virtue, or worth, in thee | |
| Make thy words faith’d? |
