Obs. Forms: 5 stefast, 5–6 stedfast(e. [f. STEADFAST a. Cf. ON. staðfesta to give a fixed abode to (Sw. stadfästa, Da. stadfæste to confirm, establish).] trans. To make steadfast; to confirm, establish.
c. 1450. Brut, II. (1908), 296. King Edward … ordeyned & stefastyd þe day of þe forsaide Rounde Table to be holde þer at Wyndissore in Whitesen-wike euermore after erly.
c. 1450. trans. De Imitatione, III. xv. (1893), 84. He … þat stedfastiþ [firmavit] all his hope in god.
1545. Raynalde, Byrth Mankynde, III. i. 110. To confirme, stedfaste, and to defende the body from noysome thynges.
