fiated

Updated: May 29, 2025

So that my uncle, who was a man of an anxious temperament, had little trouble in satisfying himself of the meerings and identity of this narrow tenement, to which Lemuel Mattocks, the sexton, led him as straight and confidently as he could have done to the communion-table. My uncle, therefore, fiated the sexton's presentment, and the work commenced forthwith.

Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu - The House by the Church-Yard