v. Obs. rare. [f. FIRM a. + -(I)FY.] trans. To make firm. intr. To become firm.
1578. J. Banister, The Historie of Man, I. 5. You shall not dread, to finde the examples of Syssarcosis very playne, in the fleshy finnifieng of the teeth in their Celles. Ibid., 17. Os Hyoides fast knit vnto the Stilifourmed Processes, proceedyng from the Temporall bone on ech syde, with a notable strong Ligament: whereby it is so firmified in the middest, as to neither part it easely slippeth.
