Obs. [f. prec. sb.] trans. To ‘christen,’ name.
1652. [F. Osborne], A Perswasive to Compliance, 17. Flattery, rather then Truth, fonted them Fathers of their Country. Ibid. (a. 1659), Queries, Wks. (1673), 593. It being likelier to have been the voice of Custom than Reason that fonted a bare Knowledge in Tongues with the title of Learning.
