enfasten

Verb

 * 1)  To fasten, to bind tightly.
 * 2) * c 1819–1861: Arthur Hugh Clough, Amours de Voyage: Canto V, V. Claude tu Eustace
 * Utterly vain is, alas! this attempt at the Absolute, — wholly!
 * I, who believed not in her, because I would fain believe nothing,
 * Have to believe as I may, with a wilful, unmeaning acceptance.
 * I, who refused to enfasten the roots of my floating existence
 * In the rich earth, cling now to the hard, naked rock that is left me, —
 * Ah! she was worthy, Eustace — and that, indeed, is my comfort, —
 * Worthy a nobler heart than a fool such as I could have given her.