a. 1623, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure:But Tuesday night last gone in's garden-house / He knew me as a wife. As this is true, / Let me in safety raise me from my knees; / Or else for ever be confixed here, / A marble monument!.
to make firm; to fix in a particular place or state
الواصلة
to make firm; to fix in a par·ti·cu·lar place or state