FASTEN Copy link • FASTENTo make fast, destinare ad aliquid or alicui rei, or absolutely, (to make fast, especially with ropes, funes, qui antennas ad malos destinant, Caes., ; destinare naves ancoris exquatuor angulis, Caes.) astringere, alligare, deligare ad aliquid; illigare in re (to tie to or on anything): annectere aliquid ad rem or alicui rei (to fasten by tying): assuere alicui rei (to fasten by sewing on): defigere alicui rei or in re; infigere alicui rei or in rem (to fix into with a hammer): figere alicui rei or in re: affigere alicui rei or ad aliquid (general term to join to anything): agglutinare alicui rei or ad aliquid (to fasten by glueing; to solder, etc.) ferruminare (to fasten with solder, putty, or any other stuff; e.g., with bitumen, bitumine; lead, plumbo; mostly with the addition of the stuff that is used to effect the combination). To fasten anything with nails, clavis aliquid figere; to anything, clavis affigere or configere aliquid alicui rei: to fasten with a pin, *aliquid acu affigere. IMPROPR., To fasten a reproach upon anybody, probrum, labem, or infamiam alicui inferre (cf: Cic., Coel., 18, 42); labem or labeculam alicui aspergere; infamia aliquem aspergere: a reproach that, will stick to him, maculam aternam alicui inurere: to fasten one’s eyes on anybody, oculos defigere in vultu alicujus: to fasten a door, etc. [Vid: To SHUT]. To impress upon; Vid: To IMPRESS.