to cause to enter, to establish; to found, build, fix, settle; (fig.) to establish in, exhort to (c. loc.), plead for, entreat, admonish DN.i.206; SN.v.189; Dhp.158, Dhp.282 (attānaṃ); Iti.78 (brahmacariye); Thig.391 (manaṃ); Ja.v.99; Pv.iii.7#7 (saṃyame nivesayi); DN-a.i.273 (gāmaṃ); Pv-a.206.

Caus. of nivesati