defix

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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 or fasten; to 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

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “defix”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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