defix

English

Etymology

From Latin defixus, past participle of defigere (“to fix”), from de- + figere (“to fix”).

Verb

defix (third-person singular simple present defixes, present participle defixing, simple past and past participle defixed)

1. (obsolete) To fix, fasten, or establish.
   • 1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […], →OCLC:

     to defixe their princely seate […] in that extreme province

References

• “defix”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• fixed