Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to handfast
Participle: handfasted
Gerund: handfasting
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | handfast |
| you | handfast |
| he;she;it | handfasts |
| we | handfast |
| you | handfast |
| they | handfast |
Perfect
| I | have handfasted |
| you | have handfasted |
| he;she;it | has handfasted |
| we | have handfasted |
| you | have handfasted |
| they | have handfasted |
Past
| I | handfasted |
| you | handfasted |
| he;she;it | handfasted |
| we | handfasted |
| you | handfasted |
| they | handfasted |
Pluperfect
| I | had handfasted |
| you | had handfasted |
| he;she;it | had handfasted |
| we | had handfasted |
| you | had handfasted |
| they | had handfasted |
Future
| I | will handfast |
| you | will handfast |
| he;she;it | will handfast |
| we | will handfast |
| you | will handfast |
| they | will handfast |
Future Perfect
| I | will have handfasted |
| you | will have handfasted |
| he;she;it | will have handfasted |
| we | will have handfasted |
| you | will have handfasted |
| they | will have handfasted |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | handfast |
| you | handfast |
| he;she;it | handfast |
| we | handfast |
| you | handfast |
| they | handfast |
Perfect
| I | have handfasted |
| you | have handfasted |
| he;she;it | have handfasted |
| we | have handfasted |
| you | have handfasted |
| they | have handfasted |
Imperfect
| I | handfasted |
| you | handfasted |
| he;she;it | handfasted |
| we | handfasted |
| you | handfasted |
| they | handfasted |
Pluperfect
| I | had handfasted |
| you | had handfasted |
| he;she;it | had handfasted |
| we | had handfasted |
| you | had handfasted |
| they | had handfasted |
Conditional
Present
| I | would handfast |
| you | would handfast |
| he;she;it | would handfast |
| we | would handfast |
| you | would handfast |
| they | would handfast |
Perfect
| I | would have handfasted |
| you | would have handfasted |
| he;she;it | would have handfasted |
| we | would have handfasted |
| you | would have handfasted |
| they | would have handfasted |
Imperative
| you | handfast |
| we | Let's handfast |
| you | handfast |
Verbs conjugated like 'handfast'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'handfast'
handpass,
handbag,
handball,
handcraft,
handfeed,
handknit,
handmake,
handplant,
handtame,
handwave,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English hondfast, past participle of Middle English hondfesten (“to betroth”), from Old Norse handfesta (“to strike a bargain, pledge”), itself from hönd (“hand”) + festa (“to fasten, fix, affirm”), perhaps from a Proto-Indo-European root *pHst-.
Sample Sentences
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No, Sir Priest or Sir Preacher, Catherine is not my wife— […] she is not my wife, but she is handfasted with me, and that makes her as honest a woman. [...] When we are handfasted, as we term it, we are man and wife for a year and a day—that space gone by, each may chuse another mate, or, at their pleasure, may call the priest to marry them for life—and this we call handfasting. [1820 March, [Walter Scott], chapter XI, in The Monastery. A Romance. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and for Archibald Constable and Co., and John Ballantyne, […], →OCLC, pages 311–312:]
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Would the lass but consent to go abroad in the unhallowed place at this awful season and hour of the night, she was as firmly handfasted to the Devil as if she had signed a bond with her own blood; […] [1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:]