defix
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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)
- (obsolete) To fix or fasten; to establish.
- Hakluyt
- to defix their princely seat […] in that extreme province
- Hakluyt
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)